Quick update on my restoration work. Seems like everything is taking forever. When you get down into the detail, things go much slower.
Finished with painting the headstock parts. I put a second coat on everything because of the pinhole condition I noticed. Glad I did because I also got a better texture match this time. For the first coat, I painted the headstock casting, sheet metal motor cover, and belt cover at three separate times and whereas they look good to themselves, I got three unique textures that were visually different when everything was together. To get away from this, I did them at the same time. I assembled the headstock casting and motor pan with temporary screws and them painted them together. Now, all three components match.
Also completed the bench and way tubes. Bench tubes went through the electrolysis baththen both bench and way tubes were sanded on the drill setupdiscussed in another thread. Polished them up with Johnson's Original Paste wax and they look good as new.
Got all the cast aluminum stripped and ready for a light sanding and then priming. Shooting for two coats of paint this weekend. (Notice the single polished caster mounting bracket).
That's it for now. Work tomorrow. Time to hit it.
