Restoration Progress On My 1952 ER10

mickyd · Post by **mickyd** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 3:37 am

Here it shows the U-drive screw protruding far enough where you can grab it with a pair of vise grips. This completes the nameplate removal.
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[ATTACH]4873[/ATTACH]

heathicus · Post by **heathicus** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 4:32 pm

MickyD, thanks for posting these detailed reports. Having gone through this process a couple times myself - and figuring out HOW to restore a machine as I went along - I really appreciate the detailed posts showing the challenges you're facing and how you're handling them. I'm learning new tricks that I can apply to the next one I restore! So, thanks!

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:17 pm

heathicus wrote:MickyD, thanks for posting these detailed reports. Having gone through this process a couple times myself - and figuring out HOW to restore a machine as I went along - I really appreciate the detailed posts showing the challenges you're facing and how you're handling them. I'm learning new tricks that I can apply to the next one I restore! So, thanks!

And he has only just begun!;)

mickyd · Post by **mickyd** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:44 pm

[quote="JPG40504"]And he has only just begun!]

Carpenters?

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:16 pm

mickyd wrote:Carpenters?

No Comprende!

baysidebob · Post by **baysidebob** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:21 pm

JPG40504 wrote:No Comprende!

The singing brother and sister" The Carpenters" had a song about" Weve only just Begun" Maybe this is what he ment? Of coarse I have been wrong before.

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:29 pm

baysidebob wrote:The singing brother and sister" The Carpenters" had a song about" Weve only just Begun" Maybe this is what he ment? Of coarse I have been wrong before.

Perhaps! Makes sense!
I thought that, but discounted it as too far fetched; but then it WAS from Mike!:D

mickyd · Post by **mickyd** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:19 pm

[quote="JPG40504"]Perhaps! Makes sense!
I thought that, but discounted it as too far fetched]

Prize goes to bayside!! Atta boy.

mickyd · Post by **mickyd** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 1:17 pm

If you've been following the thread, you know that I decided to try and recreate the ER's nameplate from scratch using a chemical etching process. I made my first attempt last night. I'll post all the details as I fine tune the process but wanted to show you what it looks like. The prototype I made was not like Norm's Yankee Workshop prototypes. I consider it to fall into the "successful failure" category. Even though it doesn't look very good, I am at least on the right track. I know what I did right and also what I did wrong.

Here my original and the one I etch prior to paint:
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[ATTACH]4902[/ATTACH].......[ATTACH]4904[/ATTACH]
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You can see that there are a lot of surface "issues" going on but I am still happy in the way it came out for the first attempt. It was like magic watching the process.

It took about 20 minutes in a 135* heated bath of ferric chloride to get to this depth, which is about .004" just like the original. I expected to see some action going in the bath as it etched but there was absolutely none. I was checking it about every 5 minutes with an eye loop to see what was going on.

Anyway, there you are. I'll be fine tuning tonight.

p.s. Hey Blane (aka BPR), still think I should have just used the old one on my resto?

tom_k/mo · Post by **tom_k/mo** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:15 pm

Mike, great job for a first attempt. What is the material you're using to make the new nameplate out of?

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