Heavy10
Plastic
- Joined
- Feb 9, 2004
- Location
- Biloxi, Ms USA
Here are the pics of my Heavy 10 still in the Army shop truck. As soon as I can acquire a cabinet for this lathe I will take it out and repaint it. The geniuses decided to paint right over the original grey with a brush and they painted it camoflauge.......yuck.
Whats the best way to strip this lathe and repaint it. I started taking some of the paint off because the cosmoline was making the paint flake off.
Otherwise this lathe is mint condition with absolutely NO wear on the ways. Its still covered in cosmoline, thats what the brown gunk is all over it. The only other thing that has a problem is the chucks. They didn't put cosmoline on them and they have slight surface rust.
Also check out the UMD. It has only 1 place for the belt to ride on the pulley attached to the motor. But the red knob handle on the motor is a gear selector to choose between 4 speeds with just the change of the lever position. I dont have to move the belts to change speeds.
Should I pull the headstock apart and change the felt in the bushings? This lathe has not been run in at least 20 yrs. The person I bought this truck from could not get the engine started on the truck for that long. Therefore he said he could not use the lathe or any of the other equipment thats in it because the generator powers it all and it is on a PTO from the engine.
Any other advice on what should be done before I mess anything up on it.
Tell me what you think.
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/TBordelon/lathe_1.jpg
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/TBordelon/lathe_2.jpg
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/TBordelon/lathe_3.jpg
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/TBordelon/lathe_4.jpg
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/TBordelon/lathe_5.jpg
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/TBordelon/UMD_1.jpg
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/TBordelon/UMD_2.jpg
[This message has been edited by Heavy10 (edited 02-15-2004).]
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Whats the best way to strip this lathe and repaint it. I started taking some of the paint off because the cosmoline was making the paint flake off.
Otherwise this lathe is mint condition with absolutely NO wear on the ways. Its still covered in cosmoline, thats what the brown gunk is all over it. The only other thing that has a problem is the chucks. They didn't put cosmoline on them and they have slight surface rust.
Also check out the UMD. It has only 1 place for the belt to ride on the pulley attached to the motor. But the red knob handle on the motor is a gear selector to choose between 4 speeds with just the change of the lever position. I dont have to move the belts to change speeds.
Should I pull the headstock apart and change the felt in the bushings? This lathe has not been run in at least 20 yrs. The person I bought this truck from could not get the engine started on the truck for that long. Therefore he said he could not use the lathe or any of the other equipment thats in it because the generator powers it all and it is on a PTO from the engine.
Any other advice on what should be done before I mess anything up on it.
Tell me what you think.
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/TBordelon/lathe_1.jpg
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/TBordelon/lathe_2.jpg
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/TBordelon/lathe_3.jpg
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/TBordelon/lathe_4.jpg
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/TBordelon/lathe_5.jpg
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/TBordelon/UMD_1.jpg
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/TBordelon/UMD_2.jpg
[This message has been edited by Heavy10 (edited 02-15-2004).]
[This message has been edited by Heavy10 (edited 02-16-2004).]
[This message has been edited by Heavy10 (edited 02-16-2004).]