Restoring the 1956 Greenie SLOWLY

wiredone · Post by **wiredone** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:44 pm

I hate that it's taking soooo long to get this party started, but life keeps gettin' in the way.
Paint scheme so far. non Metallic Hunter Green for the legs only, hammer-tone green and silver elsewhere. Nice looking stainless hardware too. I love the ease of stainless.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:03 pm

wiredone wrote:I hate that it's taking soooo long to get this party started, but life keeps gettin' in the way.
Paint scheme so far. non Metallic Hunter Green for the legs only, hammer-tone green and silver elsewhere. Nice looking stainless hardware too. I love the ease of stainless.

I really like the paint job. Your color scheme lends a new meaning to the term "greenie".

It will be like a new unit when you finish.

Are you installing new bearings throughout or are you reusing parts?

wiredone · Post by **wiredone** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:20 pm

This will be a total restore. IF and only IF the bearings are absolutely perfect will they be retained. Half the battle is finding decent proper bearings.
I use all the known bearing houses, but still have a problem finding the C-1 bearings for my 10ER projects. I like to buy in 1 shot and save shipping.
I've read all the bearing discussions here and elsewhere, but end up more confused and conflicted than when I started.
This unit was to be my own personal one, but I just bought another 56 last week that is only a month younger than this one, and it runs sweet but looks like the devil. I am now leaning towards a brownie to keep for myself, I have a 1960 that is in REAL bad shape.
I got real lucky and sold my 59 Greenie 2 weeks ago and actually made a little profit. which of course rolled into the latest purchase. The "new" one came with a jigsaw too.

cranehead · Post by **cranehead** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:56 pm

I share your confusion about bearings, even when I have the numbers the catalogs seem to show many variations. The prices online are so much better that I feel conflicted, I guess being able to take them in to someone who knows what they're doing has its value- especially since I don't know what I'm doing at this point.

Nice paint and the stainless hardware gives it the finishing touch.

TC

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:03 am

cranehead wrote:I share your confusion about bearings, even when I have the numbers the catalogs seem to show many variations. The prices online are so much better that I feel conflicted, I guess being able to take them in to someone who knows what they're doing has its value- especially since I don't know what I'm doing at this point.

Nice paint and the stainless hardware gives it the finishing touch.

TC

Whenever I need parts of this nature, I go to my local Motion Industries outlet.

cranehead · Post by **cranehead** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:33 am

dusty wrote:Whenever I need parts of this nature, I go to my local Motion Industries outlet.

I'd never heard of them and yet I find there's one in my neighborhood. I'll be checking them out.

TC

lightnin · Post by **lightnin** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:20 pm

Same here, never heard of them and thre is one about a mile from the route I take to work at one of the several locations I go on duty.

greg1m53 · Post by **greg1m53** » Thu Nov 22, 2012 1:33 pm

Very nice job!!
Looking forward to see it altogether

billmayo · Post by **billmayo** » Thu Nov 22, 2012 10:46 pm

wiredone wrote:This will be a total restore. IF and only IF the bearings are absolutely perfect will they be retained. Half the battle is finding decent proper bearings.
I use all the known bearing houses, but still have a problem finding the C-1 bearings for my 10ER projects. I like to buy in 1 shot and save shipping.
I've read all the bearing discussions here and elsewhere, but end up more confused and conflicted than when I started.

I try to buy ABEC3 rated bearings that normally have "Precision" on the box. This is a close rating to the old "C1" rating. I buy most of my bearing from usabearingsbelts on Ebay. Outstanding customer service and really quick shipping.