update..
Spent a couple of hours on the drill so far, totally stripped it and working through degreasing (there was a lot!) then removing rust using a combination of electrolysis and wire brush. Good thing so far is that apart from the grip marks on the spindle and a grub screw on the drive pulley no other issues. The spindle will be fine and the pulley will need a new hole drilling and tapping for another grub screw. The existing grub screw was chewed up, tried drilling but being long and of hardened steel i was getting nowhere so did the unthinkable and pulled it off with gear pullers luckily with virtually no noticeable effect on the motor shaft.
I am missing some lever handles which I still need to source, i emailed tony at lathes.co.uk hoping he may have some stock if not ill continue my quest through google. Got half a litre of the original paint for the main casting which was looking too taty but I'm planning to keep the top original as its in good condition. The casting is interesting they used a heck of a lot of filler! was planning on using a high build primer but not sure that will do it looking at it may need body filler first. I used gun bluing and oil on some of the parts, they came up a treat and hit the table top with the rotary sander which brightens it up. 50/50 as to doing something about the holes in the table at the moment.
The shaft was troublesome, it had loads of rubbery gunk and has some brutal clamping marks, spent some time at the wire wheel then some metal polish and DA sander and it came up pretty good considering (see above pic).
Spent a couple of hours on the drill so far, totally stripped it and working through degreasing (there was a lot!) then removing rust using a combination of electrolysis and wire brush. Good thing so far is that apart from the grip marks on the spindle and a grub screw on the drive pulley no other issues. The spindle will be fine and the pulley will need a new hole drilling and tapping for another grub screw. The existing grub screw was chewed up, tried drilling but being long and of hardened steel i was getting nowhere so did the unthinkable and pulled it off with gear pullers luckily with virtually no noticeable effect on the motor shaft.
I am missing some lever handles which I still need to source, i emailed tony at lathes.co.uk hoping he may have some stock if not ill continue my quest through google. Got half a litre of the original paint for the main casting which was looking too taty but I'm planning to keep the top original as its in good condition. The casting is interesting they used a heck of a lot of filler! was planning on using a high build primer but not sure that will do it looking at it may need body filler first. I used gun bluing and oil on some of the parts, they came up a treat and hit the table top with the rotary sander which brightens it up. 50/50 as to doing something about the holes in the table at the moment.
The shaft was troublesome, it had loads of rubbery gunk and has some brutal clamping marks, spent some time at the wire wheel then some metal polish and DA sander and it came up pretty good considering (see above pic).
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