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G'day fellow forumites.

It has been a very long slow process but I have finally completed the restoration of my 10E S/N 1839. When I started out i didn't realize how involved it would be. There was alot of searching the pages here . Thank you so much to everyone for their information and shared experiences with their restorations.

Here is a bunch of pics I took as I worked my way through it. Please forgive me tho as some pics I have already put on here from when I first purchased it but thought I would put everything into one post.

I am still missing a couple things, like the quill feed handle as it was quite bend and missing the knob from the end, I haven't decided if ill make a resin ball for the end or a polished aluminum ball. Almost all the bolts that were in the machine were extremely rusty and beyond polishing, these were all replaces with polished acorn nuts.

Way tubes were sanded/polished in a similar manor as others have posted on here. I fitted rubber plugs to the metal lathe and used it to slowly spin the tubed to remove surface rust.

The motor was worn out and needed a rebuild, not cheap but wow very impressed with how smooth it runs.

I still want to get a table raising arm and pulley cover. I have a second machine that came with a speed changer, that machine is most likely going to become a dedicated drill press for a time as it still runs well. I bought a 4e jointer which was damaged in transit. The tab the table raising handle sits in was snapped off, not too sure of my chances of repairing it

The bench was made from oregon left over from a 2nd hand carport I bought and reassembled out back.

I'm very proud of this machine and cant wait to use it.

Thanks for looking, all comments are appreciated and anything that you think needs improving to keep up with the amazing standard of machines id be interested to know too

Marty

Wow, what a great restoration!

Gorgeous! Did you polish the old pulleys, or buy the new machined ones from Skip at MKC? If you polished them, what was your process?

I am so tempted to buy a 10E/R and restore. This tempts me even more so.

Absolutely first rate! Nice job. I like the black color scheme, very industrial!

You have saved another, now use it and enjoy it!

You should be proud!

Nice job, looks great.

Very Nice job!

BTW it is a 10ER.

BuckeyeDennis wrote:Gorgeous! Did you polish the old pulleys, or buy the new machined ones from Skip at MKC? If you polished them, what was your process?

Thanks for the comments, nice to have my work appreciated.

The pulleys are the original ones that came on the machine. I scrubbed the all the gunk off the pulleys with a wire brush, not scrubbing too hard that i left heavy scratch marks. They were then mounted on a shaft made from a bolt and secured using the grub screw, the shaft and pulley was held and slowly spun on the lathe to polish using mag wheel cleaner. I only took one photo of the polished and half cleaned pulley, not the whole process tho. Hope this helps.

JPG wrote:Very Nice job!

BTW it is a 10ER.

What is the difference between the 10E and ER series? Are they very subtle? I was assuming it is a 10E as there is no 'R' stamped on the logo plate next to the serial number?

Marty

You should be proud.You did a great job.Congrats.

megastevo81 wrote:

BuckeyeDennis wrote:Gorgeous! Did you polish the old pulleys, or buy the new machined ones from Skip at MKC? If you polished them, what was your process?

Thanks for the comments, nice to have my work appreciated.

The pulleys are the original ones that came on the machine. I scrubbed the all the gunk off the pulleys with a wire brush, not scrubbing too hard that i left heavy scratch marks. They were then mounted on a shaft made from a bolt and secured using the grub screw, the shaft and pulley was held and slowly spun on the lathe to polish using mag wheel cleaner. I only took one photo of the polished and half cleaned pulley, not the whole process tho. Hope this helps.

JPG wrote:Very Nice job!

BTW it is a 10ER.

What is the difference between the 10E and ER series? Are they very subtle? I was assuming it is a 10E as there is no 'R' stamped on the logo plate next to the serial number?

Marty

Based on the serial number, I'd say that the headstock is a 10E. The fence is also the earlier style. But some of the other components, notably the extension table and bracket, may have been upgraded to the ER style.

Here's a survey done by Skip at MKC tools -- it delves into the machine changes made over the years.
The odd thing to me is that your pivot base is the "squared off" version. My 10E has the round pivot base, and my 10ER has the "squared off" style like yours. Magna didn't make all the changes at one time, and apparently didn't change over all production of a given component at the same time either.

I recently bought 10E serial number 1750 myself. It came with the 10ER upgrade tailstock, extension table, and bracket, and also with the original 10E parts.