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Not if it's had a holder in it this whole time. Sadly can't see from the pics.
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Unfortunately it looks to be to far gone. I taken some serious rusty bits of machinery and made them good. But I don't think I could do a great deal. The rust and corrosion looks to deep.
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Thats a shame. Someone has hung on to that so long it is now probably beyond redemption. I have a little horizontal Centec and it is a lovely machine to use. As has been pointed out though, you are going to spend a LOT of time making that just functional, let alone usable.
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just face facts its well knocked and not even worth picking up for scrap 
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It's worth a look if the price is right, it's only a small machine so if the way is shot a half decent machine shop would be able to re cut it if you're up for a rebuild. Obviously it depends what the rest of the machine is like but for a home workshop it's probably savable.
@minimutly - got one of these myself. The mill is too far gone IMHO to be saved, the problem you will have is even after massive amounts of cleaning the ways will be pitted from the rust so you will then be into a lot of scraping to try and get them flat. Also the amount of work needed to get the table, cross slides, mics etc cleaned up will just be to much to be worth it.
You do see clean ones of these come up every so often for not daft money so I would look out for one of those. As a thought though, some of the bits on that might be saleable, I would defo be interested in the vertical head and I know @Rannsachair picked a nice one up in the spring that was missing the overarm.
If you can get it for scrap value then you could probably sell a few of those parts even in the condition they are in for a few quid and make some money towards getting a clean one?
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MM
You do see clean ones of these come up every so often for not daft money so I would look out for one of those. As a thought though, some of the bits on that might be saleable, I would defo be interested in the vertical head and I know @Rannsachair picked a nice one up in the spring that was missing the overarm.
If you can get it for scrap value then you could probably sell a few of those parts even in the condition they are in for a few quid and make some money towards getting a clean one?
Cheers,
MM
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Then youd have to remove a rusted load rust
By the time youve had it all done might as well buy a tom senior
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My two pence worth - it doesn’t look like it’ll ever be capable of real precision work again without spending some serious money, but you might be able to get something usable for not too much outlay as long as your not expecting it to produce accurate work.
So I will go back and have another look, see if the rust is as bad as it looks in the pics.
Thanks for all comments.
He also has one of these:- oops pics went above my text...
Honest estimate of its value is probably no more than £50 unless you want to do him a real favour as he's a friend. I bought my one for £250 fully operational and top price is £600 again fully operational.
I genuinely think this is too far gone to be saved but, if you fancy it as a project then go for it
Cheers,
MM
I genuinely think this is too far gone to be saved but, if you fancy it as a project then go for it
Cheers,
MM
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Surface rust isn't a major problem. It's when it gets beyond that and actually starts eating in to the metal. This leaves a lot of pitting on the ways...the odd little bit ain't so bad. But if there is lots then the work required isn't a viable proposition
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If you get the corrosion out of the pitting there will be no need to hand scrape for oil retention! 
In all honesty if just cleaned up and reassembled for home use it would still be better than my POS Chinese mill and more accurate too.
In all honesty if just cleaned up and reassembled for home use it would still be better than my POS Chinese mill and more accurate too.
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It would have to be in pretty severe conditions for a matched taper to corrode beyond use. It's pretty sealed.
My latest acquisition, a coronet major had heavy rusting on all bare surfaces, but because it had a tool in both the head and tailstock both the tapers were perfect.
It's like when changing a bearing in a very rusty housing or shaft, generally the mating face is pretty clean.
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Typically agree but seeing as the chromed wheels have no chrome left at all id question it
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It's proper fecked. Shame. I was hoping to see something nice. I like a good mill restoration. As some of you know.
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Looks like a plant number.
