Greenie paint - and misc maint / rebuild questions
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 6:19 pm
The knowledge shared throughout these forum posts is really something.
I have sat and just read for hours at a time on many different subjects.
My first shopsmith was a goldie - given to me back in Spokane in the early 1980's and I used it for many, many years and did end up selling it prior to moving back here to Iowa.
Have been "rebuilding and adding" finally my new shopsmith shop and recently found a one-owner 1957 Greenie that is really in superb condition, but does have some areas I would like to touch up. I see shopsmith sells some paint, but notice most folks talk about the Verde Green being used for restorations.
Does this match close enough to the original paint color and texture to be able to use it for ........ lets say just the headstock belt cover. Another curious observation on my "new" unit is that the motor pan appears to be a slightly different shade than the original tone of the headstock above it.
Without a doubt this unit is 100% original (castors and all) and some of the original photos I have seen also appear to have the motor pan being slightly different. Is this truly the case ??
Mechanically, I want to gut the greenie to bare headstock casting and replace everything with the guts of a 360,000 serial number headstock for the dual bearing quill, larger 1-1/8 hp motor, and poly V drive. I am assuming this would all work and determined to get it figured out - any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I do CAD design for a living and grew up running around dad's machine shop so I figure with some advise from you guys / gals that have so much shopsmith experience I should be able to accomplish this task. New bearings, etc. of course if needed --
Am also excited to go get an original one-owner goldie within the next 2-3 weeks with matching bandsaw - this unit will be setup with bandsaw on the one end and Velcro disk sander / 500 table with optional sander dust chute on the other end with both functions sending sawdust to the shopsmith DC unit. This unit will most likely stay original - not sure yet if it is the earlier one with 3/4 motor or later one with 1-1/8 but either way just doing bandsaw work and disk sanding should not be much of an issue.
I don't believe the goldie will need any touchup, but if so -- what works best on that. Neither unit will need any type of complete paint restore.
I have located an original ER-10 in mint condition with the speed changer, etc and plan to set that up as my lathe for pens, etc.
My shop when finished will have 510 standard, greenie drill press with spindle sander mounted at accessory end, goldie with bandsaw / disk sander / and ER-10 as lathe. Kind of my own personal shopsmith museum of pure woodworking pleasure.
Thanks for the help - Happy Holidays and above all ............ BE SAFE.
I have sat and just read for hours at a time on many different subjects.
My first shopsmith was a goldie - given to me back in Spokane in the early 1980's and I used it for many, many years and did end up selling it prior to moving back here to Iowa.
Have been "rebuilding and adding" finally my new shopsmith shop and recently found a one-owner 1957 Greenie that is really in superb condition, but does have some areas I would like to touch up. I see shopsmith sells some paint, but notice most folks talk about the Verde Green being used for restorations.
Does this match close enough to the original paint color and texture to be able to use it for ........ lets say just the headstock belt cover. Another curious observation on my "new" unit is that the motor pan appears to be a slightly different shade than the original tone of the headstock above it.
Without a doubt this unit is 100% original (castors and all) and some of the original photos I have seen also appear to have the motor pan being slightly different. Is this truly the case ??
Mechanically, I want to gut the greenie to bare headstock casting and replace everything with the guts of a 360,000 serial number headstock for the dual bearing quill, larger 1-1/8 hp motor, and poly V drive. I am assuming this would all work and determined to get it figured out - any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I do CAD design for a living and grew up running around dad's machine shop so I figure with some advise from you guys / gals that have so much shopsmith experience I should be able to accomplish this task. New bearings, etc. of course if needed --
Am also excited to go get an original one-owner goldie within the next 2-3 weeks with matching bandsaw - this unit will be setup with bandsaw on the one end and Velcro disk sander / 500 table with optional sander dust chute on the other end with both functions sending sawdust to the shopsmith DC unit. This unit will most likely stay original - not sure yet if it is the earlier one with 3/4 motor or later one with 1-1/8 but either way just doing bandsaw work and disk sanding should not be much of an issue.
I don't believe the goldie will need any touchup, but if so -- what works best on that. Neither unit will need any type of complete paint restore.
I have located an original ER-10 in mint condition with the speed changer, etc and plan to set that up as my lathe for pens, etc.
My shop when finished will have 510 standard, greenie drill press with spindle sander mounted at accessory end, goldie with bandsaw / disk sander / and ER-10 as lathe. Kind of my own personal shopsmith museum of pure woodworking pleasure.
Thanks for the help - Happy Holidays and above all ............ BE SAFE.