ShopShed
Plastic
- Joined
- Dec 22, 2019
- Location
- Beutiful shores of Lake Perry
I picked up a EE off a Purple Wave auction! She sat in a town shop for ten years +-, unused, following a school auction. I got her cheap, mainly due to her appearance. Abandoned, unused, and unmaintained resulted in years of dirt and old oil coagulating on the top surfaces of the machines poor appearance. Her paint peeling off in layers making a mosaic of paint chips. I am looking forward to the tinker time in the ShopShed and making Replica Weapon systems. That is for the future though, for now I need to focus on my machines, which brings me to this forum.
I don't think she suffers internally as everything turns, shifts, and moves freely with no odd noises. The rust on the chucks came off real easy with an Evaporust bath. I cleaned the grime off with a WD-40 sponge bath. Now it's time to strip all the paint layers off and renew what I think is the original color. I contacted Monarch and asked for info. All I received was a little hand written message; Color, not recorded, Elec. Diagram EE-3216, Original Owner - GE Cincinnati Ohio, and shipped in 1951. Not much info but it's a beginning. Where the Monarch badge came off was Hammered Steel paint I am assuming is original.
I am not at all an expert, not even an apprentice of machine tear down and repair so I am sure I will have numbers of questions. I have four lathes and am honing my ability on many basic skills. Looking forward, from here there is no other direction.
Jim
I don't think she suffers internally as everything turns, shifts, and moves freely with no odd noises. The rust on the chucks came off real easy with an Evaporust bath. I cleaned the grime off with a WD-40 sponge bath. Now it's time to strip all the paint layers off and renew what I think is the original color. I contacted Monarch and asked for info. All I received was a little hand written message; Color, not recorded, Elec. Diagram EE-3216, Original Owner - GE Cincinnati Ohio, and shipped in 1951. Not much info but it's a beginning. Where the Monarch badge came off was Hammered Steel paint I am assuming is original.
I am not at all an expert, not even an apprentice of machine tear down and repair so I am sure I will have numbers of questions. I have four lathes and am honing my ability on many basic skills. Looking forward, from here there is no other direction.
Jim