Steve's workshop - Painting the outside walls

[Steve Maskery]

I've decided that I am going to replace those bottom rail trims. I'll have to take the verticals off, but I can re-use them. Pity I caulked them.

 

[monkeybiter]

You'll get this thread to 100 pages yet! (hammer)

 

[Steve Maskery]

100 pages and 100,000 views? What do you reckon?
I pity anyone who stumbles on this, starts reading from the beginning and gets hooked...

 

[Titch]

I'm hooked makes a great read

 

[NickWelford]

Pity you don't get a few pennies per view, Steve.......

 

[paul-c]

100 pages and 100,000 views? What do you reckon?
I pity anyone who stumbles on this, starts reading from the beginning and gets hooked...

you mean gets hooked like everybody already reading this thread.
i have to tell you Steve , this is the first thing i look at when i log in (i bet i am not alone in doing this ).
so thank you and keep up the good work. =D>

 

[John Brown]

Pity you don't get a few pennies per view, Steve.......

Does get a bit of free advertising in every post, though.
(Not that I'm complaining, I bought the bandsaw DVDs years ago).

 

[RobinBHM]

100 pages and 100,000 views.................seems like a good target to me.

I started reading this thread after about 20 pages or so, I then read from the beginning and have followed it ever since.

 

[bertikus_maximus]

100 pages and 100,000 views? What do you reckon?
I pity anyone who stumbles on this, starts reading from the beginning and gets hooked...

you mean gets hooked like everybody already reading this thread.
i have to tell you Steve , this is the first thing i look at when i log in (i bet i am not alone in doing this ).
so thank you and keep up the good work. =D>

I only log in to read this so I can see the pictures! (hammer)

 

[Steve Maskery]

Before I can cut any more wood on my tablesaw I need to rebuild the guard. I've made the cover but I need to drill some steel accurately, my hand drilling is not good enough.

Ray and I dragged my drill press from the log cabin last week. It's a very heavy machine, even Ray complained.

Lulu (for that is her name, she was built in 1963, the year of Shout!) was looking very sad indeed. I had rebuilt her a few years ago, when I first bought her. NVR switch and paint job, mainly. But now she looked very unloved.

I should have photographed the cover the other way up. It was covered in guano.

I'd already cleaned up the top section a bit, so we could remove the head and table to make it a bit lighter.

But even in pieces it is a very difficult machine to handle.

The smaller parts I decided to derust electrolytically. I forgot to photograph that handle before it went in, it's already had a few minutes here.

Since taking that picture, I've altered the arrangement a bit. The part is now suspended in the middle and there are four 6"nails making a sort of cage, so that the part gets done from all sides. I'll try to remember to take a better pic tomorrow.

Next I dismantled the base/column assembly. It nearly killed me, it is so heavy. But I got the column on to my bench somehow and started to rub it down. It a very messy job and I needed some paper towels so I got sidetracked into installing a paper towel dispenser I bought some weeks ago and has been sitting in its box ever since.

It is a really excellent bit of kit. Solid. Well-made as well as well-designed. There is a template included for positioning the holes. Good instructions. Very good indeed.

It even has a built-in spirit level!

So now I have hand towel on demand. Luxury.

 

[Steve Maskery]

Back to the pillar drill.

I cleaned up the column using emery paper and WD40. You can see the difference in surface appearance. The left is where I have cleaned it up, the right is where it was inside the casting and did not get rusty at all. So it is not exactly like it was before, but it is not bad. Part of its history now.

I also polished my nuts.

I got the column and base reassembled but the head was too heavy to lift and manoeuvre , I couldn't get it any further than this.

"I know", thinks I, "I'll take the motor off". Which I did, only to find that it is connected by a cable. *****. So now I had a %^&* heavy motor in my hands, tethered to a cast-iron head. Fortunately I did manage to get them back together before I did myself a mischief.

I photographed what wire went where and disconnected the motor

I did get her back together, switched her on and she purred. A wire brush on the rotating chuck and she looked as good as new.

I need to make a new DP table, but right now I am one happy bunny. I didn't think she would come up this good.

So tomorrow I can finish my blade guard and get on with the window trim.

 

[paulm]

Nice work Steve, very satisfying I'm sure

Cheers, Paul

 

[Paul Chapman]

Great job, Steve.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[Racers]

Good job Steve, I still think she should she been called Scarlett.

Pete

 

[Steve Maskery]

I can't remember what colour she was when I got her. But looking underneath the table it would appear that she was a sort of petrol blue colour originally. I like her in seductive red, though.
I've just realised that the pictures showing how she has come up are not that clear. I'll try to take some better ones tomorrow.

 

[monkeybiter]

Next I dismantled the base/column assembly. It nearly killed me, it is so heavy.

That would have been a bit ironic, killed preparing tools to make a safety device! #-o

Looking very good for it's age, and in a short space of time too!

 

[Steve Maskery]

=D> =D> =D>
That made me laugh.

 

[marcros]

I look forward to seeing the table when you make it. I am not sure whether to make one for mine, fit a drill vice, fit something to hold pen blanks or go for a modular approach.

 

[nanscombe]

If you wanted to keep the 1964 link, with the red colouration and "Anyone who had a heart" would want to get her up and running again you could re-christen her "Cilla the pillar drill". :wink:

Does she also tend to go from a purr to whine a bit when in use? :twisted:

 

[wcndave]

I had to move my drill press to new shop and was surprised that it was the most difficult piece of kit to move. We took the head and base off, and it took 3 of us struggling to lift the head.