Phase 3 colours help pls

[phill d]

what colour are you going to paint your drill Noods ?

I just renovated a old Elliott progress No1 drill bench version, but lucky for me it just looked a lot worse than it really was.
only had a touch of surface rust on the pulley cover, everything else was smothered in 50 years of oil and grease.
I don't have any pitting on mine at all and although the motor worked, it was full of crap and needed a good clean out or would
only work with a push start.

when doing any cleaning you will find the dark red Scotchbright pads are brilliant and don't harm the metal they are cleaning.
I used wd40 , then white spirit then methylated spirits on the pad, the un-coated steel parts come up like new this way .
the meths is great as it gets rid of the white spirit and evaporates good. Then a strip down of all the parts to be painted , taken
back to bare metal then a nice re-paint with a drop of johnstone's metal paint and all is good, time taken to do it was around 6 hours
of enjoyable work, and still have half a tin of paint for future touch ups.

phill

 

[Noods]

what colour are you going to paint your drill Noods ?

I just renovated a old Elliott progress No1 drill bench version, but lucky for me it just looked a lot worse than it really was.
only had a touch of surface rust on the pulley cover, everything else was smothered in 50 years of oil and grease.
I don't have any pitting on mine at all and although the motor worked, it was full of crap and needed a good clean out or would
only work with a push start.

when doing any cleaning you will find the dark red Scotchbright pads are brilliant and don't harm the metal they are cleaning.
I used wd40 , then white spirit then methylated spirits on the pad, the un-coated steel parts come up like new this way .
the meths is great as it gets rid of the white spirit and evaporates good. Then a strip down of all the parts to be painted , taken
back to bare metal then a nice re-paint with a drop of johnstone's metal paint and all is good, time taken to do it was around 6 hours
of enjoyable work, and still have half a tin of paint for future touch ups.

phill

Phil, sounds like your muchime me.. I can't stand seeing a quality item being abused or even thrown away.. I've just re painted mine in silver grey mainly with bits of black too.. Will show when done.. I'm always using scotch as well... Mind you I normally drink the meths... Lol..

Pic to show what I do.. This Ducati swing arm arrived in a rough state.. This is how it's now after a NOODS refinish..

I'm deff OCD ...
X NOODS

 

[brightspark]

ici have a lot of machines and they used red for the earth

 

[Robotstar5]

ici have a lot of machines and they used red for the earth

Worked on some Italian tube forming machines, the wiring colours were a lottery, I think they just used whatever they had to hand

 

[phill d]

far too much quality machinery as ended being scraped for a silly small amount of money.
I saw a lathe last year, miles too big for me, it weighed well over a ton, it got scraped and the bloke got £198 for it, just shy of the £200.
if I had the room for it I would of had that no problem.
In the morning the machine was working in a workshop, later that same day it was being dropped from a grab in a scrap yard.
I cant believe that these go that way, nothing at all wrong it, just a company moving away and it was not wanted for their new premises.
I have no idea how much a new one like it would cost, probably 30 thousand pound or more !!! it was a beauty of a machine no rust no
damage at all. criminal waste of such a great piece of kit.


phill

 

[Wedg1e]

far too much quality machinery as ended being scraped for a silly small amount of money.
I saw a lathe last year, miles too big for me, it weighed well over a ton, it got scraped and the bloke got £198 for it, just shy of the £200.
if I had the room for it I would of had that no problem.
In the morning the machine was working in a workshop, later that same day it was being dropped from a grab in a scrap yard.
I cant believe that these go that way, nothing at all wrong it, just a company moving away and it was not wanted for their new premises.
I have no idea how much a new one like it would cost, probably 30 thousand pound or more !!! it was a beauty of a machine no rust no
damage at all. criminal waste of such a great piece of kit.


phill

I said once before on here that I found a pair of DS&G lathes lying in a heap on an industrial estate near us, they were probably working fine when pushed over but had rusted past the point of redemption. I was just surprised that the itinerant metal collectors hadn't had them away.

 

[brightspark]

I said once before on here that I found a pair of DS&G lathes lying in a heap on an industrial estate near us, they were probably working fine when pushed over but had rusted past the point of redemption. I was just surprised that the itinerant metal collectors hadn't had them away.

thats cos most dont have a wagon with a hiab fitted

 

[the snooper]

thats cos most dont have a wagon with a hiab fitted

they did up our way a few years ago and was taking anything, a guy in unit opposite had a steel container outside, he removed a load of steel work and put it on top of the container with his fork truck thinking it would be safe up there, it was gone the next day along with all our drain pipe protectors

 

[phill d]

its when they nick the forklift that realy p*&*&*s you off,

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[Wedg1e]

thats cos most dont have a wagon with a hiab fitted

That does seem to be more true these days, they mostly have pickups and Transits with bogus company details on the side to make them look more legit when they're cruising the estates peering up peoples' driveways
Maybe it's something to do with tightening the licensing rules on goods vehicles.

 

[the snooper]

That does seem to be more true these days, they mostly have pickups and Transits with bogus company details on the side to make them look more legit when they're cruising the estates peering up peoples' driveways
Maybe it's something to do with tightening the licensing rules on goods vehicles.

yeah most advertising block paved drives and so on, some even have an 0845 number on them, they are getting more savvy to scamming people

 

[phill d]

no its nothing to do with vehicles licensing.
its because its much easier to rob old people of 4 grand by doing roofing chimney's and drive ways than it is to nick 4 grands worth of steel and copper.
and don't forget the upvc they are into as well.
NEVER TRUST ANYONE WITH A NICE NEW VAN, genuine builders keep their vans until they fall to bits, its only the pikey's who can have new vans due to them getting them on the book and never paying for them or cloning another one.
And the best bit is the thieving ******** have the cheek to call themselves born again Christians !!!

Born again pikey 10 rip off commandmants
1/ THOUGH SHALT ROB AS MANY OLD PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE
2/ THOUGH SHALT NEVER FINNISH THE JOB STARTED ONCE MONEY HAS BEEN GIVEN FOR MATERIALS.
3/ THOUGH SHALT MAKE IT LOOK LIKE WERE ARE GENUINE BY KNOCKING ON THE DOOR WEARING A SUIT .
4/ THOUGH SHALT HAVE THE VAN SIGN WRITTEN ALL OVER IT EVEN IF THE SPELLING IS WRONG.
5/ THOUGH SHALT DO OUR BEST TO EYE UP ANYTHING NICKABLE & SEND MY COUSIN BACK LATER.
6/ THOUGH SHALT MAKE SURE WE OVER-CHARGE BY ATLEAST 500% OLD PEOPLE BY MUCH MORE
7/ THOUGH SHALT SCARE THE OLD PEOPLE INTO HANDING OVER THE CASH BEFORE WE EVEN START THE JOB.
8/ THOUGH SHALT TRY NOT TO SOUND PIKEY, STOP SAYING CUSHTY ,CHAVIE, MUMS LIFE AND "ON ME DEAD GRANNY'S EYE SIGHT"
9/ THOUGH SHALT GET UP ON ROOF AND START BREAKING AS MANY TILES AS POSSIBLE TO BUMP THE PRICE UP
10/ THOUGH SHALT DO MAKE A DRIVE ONLY 1/2 INCH THICK ALL OVER, BUT THICKER BY THE GARAGE DOOR SO IT DONT OPEN.

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[Robotstar5]

Thread's going downhill fast, due for locking?.

 

[roofman]

I think i need to remind some peeps of the thread title...
Phase 3 colours help pls

 

[phill d]

I thought the colours had been answered long ago.

 

[brightspark]

I thought the colours had been answered long ago.

they had but as usual some people go off on a tangent and it turns in to a multitude of irelevant topics