kb0thn
Stainless
- Joined
- May 15, 2008
- Location
- Winona, MN, USA
Hi Guys,
backstory:
I'm barely a wood worker. But wife and I are building a house ourselves and it is about time for me to make a bunch of flooring and cabinets and trim. We purchased solid maple flooring from three YMCA racquetball courts that I need to plane down to remove the finish. My throw-away lunch box planer did okay. But we have about 2,400ft^2 of it to do. And then wife decided on hickory for cabinet faces and trim, so I've got a literal ton of rough saw hickory to deal with.
Anyway, I bought a 1960's vintage Rockwell 22-200 18" wedge bed planer at auction. It is a 1,000+ lb machine with 7-1/2" HP drive motor and separate power feed drive motor. The stupid auction house left it outside for a month or more. Table was covered in fresh rust. And the feed rollers that appear to have originally been chromed, have gobs of rust on them. The machine is spinning and everything is looking good. But the rollers are going to leave imprints on the wood.
What do y'all recon in the best way to clean these up? It looks like Evaporust will be okay on chrome. That or sandblasting is my usual approach to cleaning rust. But I think I'm going to have pitting. Is this a turn down rollers in the lathe and send out for chrome sort of job? Or just turn down and leave as bare steel? I don't think a change in diameter is going to matter much, since the heights of the rollers are all adjustable.
Thanks,
-Jim
backstory:
I'm barely a wood worker. But wife and I are building a house ourselves and it is about time for me to make a bunch of flooring and cabinets and trim. We purchased solid maple flooring from three YMCA racquetball courts that I need to plane down to remove the finish. My throw-away lunch box planer did okay. But we have about 2,400ft^2 of it to do. And then wife decided on hickory for cabinet faces and trim, so I've got a literal ton of rough saw hickory to deal with.
Anyway, I bought a 1960's vintage Rockwell 22-200 18" wedge bed planer at auction. It is a 1,000+ lb machine with 7-1/2" HP drive motor and separate power feed drive motor. The stupid auction house left it outside for a month or more. Table was covered in fresh rust. And the feed rollers that appear to have originally been chromed, have gobs of rust on them. The machine is spinning and everything is looking good. But the rollers are going to leave imprints on the wood.
What do y'all recon in the best way to clean these up? It looks like Evaporust will be okay on chrome. That or sandblasting is my usual approach to cleaning rust. But I think I'm going to have pitting. Is this a turn down rollers in the lathe and send out for chrome sort of job? Or just turn down and leave as bare steel? I don't think a change in diameter is going to matter much, since the heights of the rollers are all adjustable.
Thanks,
-Jim