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First off, many thanks to everyone for the assist from my last post.

we left oklahoma at 0600 fri morning, made a fast round trip to denver and made it home at 0300 sat morning 1229 miles later with a used one owner 510 that had been sitting in storage for a few years. Son had inherited and never used.

she is dirty and ill be doing a good clean oil and adj this week. I is missing some of the smaller parts ill being doing inventory as i go.

picked up brasso, and paste wax today.

she did have the bandsaw and joiner for 800.00 i figured she was worth it.

discovered the build date is 14 feb 1998, so wife has decided her name is Lovesmith "when your married to a old hippy wife you have to expect these things"

thanks again and im sure many questions will follow


Troy & Andrea

Congratulations on your acquisition. It does sound as though you made a good one. Wax and light weight machine oil (oiler from ACE I understand, Brasso I do not. Maybe some use it and if they do they will chime in. You also likely need mineral spirits and alcohol. If I was doing your job right now the process would be something:

Blow and Vacuum her free of visible dirt and dust. Inside the headstock to start with and later inside the motor housing. Want you to develop a familiarity before you get down deep into the motor.

Wipe everything that you intend to wax with a rag soaled in mineral spirits. Clean especially all of the table top.

Study the web site here and the Sawdust Sessions to learn what to il.

Study the alignment procedures and then perform a nit picking alignment. If close is good closer is better. My personal target number for nearly all alignments is to within .005". That can bot be measured with ordinary tools. However, since you will have studied the alignment procedures by now, you know that totally acceptable alignments can be achieved using a ruler, macinist square, bullet level and feeler gauge.

I expect that the two of you will be making much saw dust very soon. Move slow, Be careful and Make Saw Dust Safely.

We love pictures here on the forum. I would support a rule that says - no pictures, it did not happen.

Brasso? NO
Car wax? NO
Johnson's past wax - Original formula? YES

read this post - Especially Page 4 http://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/maint ... 7-s20.html

I use minwax paste wax on the tubes and table top with out any issues .

Never used brasso on the saw ,, it might work on the handles or smaller shinny parts like the dials.

Myn is a 1983 and has the single bearing quill ,I have been told a double bearing quill and 510-520 tables and fence on the older saws make a great up grade .


Hobbyman2

i did get the johnson paste wax, the big yellow can.

Brasso i was introduced to in basic training and have used it over the years with good results,

also i have used mothers metal clean on machined and milled surface with good luck

have her down to the main frame and have discovered a cpl things that i will post on in the maintenance section.

am missing a few things but can pick them up along the way

I am glad your are happy, back in the day there is a cream called SemiChrome. Works great for polishing and deoxidizing Aluminum.

Not sure what the ammonia in Brasso will do to the exposed metal parts.

It is a metal polish after all. The abrasives are fine enough to not do any damage.

I do not think I would use in on the aluminum parts.(just a cautious attitude)

thanks guys, yeah i was using the brasso to clean the non machined parts up, i have used mothers on machined and milled surfaces before,

finally got pics to work on the maint post,

first upgrades will be a new power cord, this one is cut and spliced a cpl times, and the upgraded casters,

JPG wrote:Not sure what the ammonia in Brasso will do to the exposed metal parts.

It is a metal polish after all. The abrasives are fine enough to not do any damage.

I do not think I would use in on the aluminum parts.(just a cautious attitude)

I could not find a definite answer here, but read the post and make your own decision.
http://www.instructables.com/community/ ... -Aluminum/

ERLover wrote:

JPG wrote:Not sure what the ammonia in Brasso will do to the exposed metal parts.

It is a metal polish after all. The abrasives are fine enough to not do any damage.

I do not think I would use in on the aluminum parts.(just a cautious attitude)

I could not find a definite answer here, but read the post and make your own decision.
http://www.instructables.com/community/ ... -Aluminum/

I think you might have stumbled upon a method for getting tailstock stuck in the base over in another thread unstuck.

BTW what did you do to get that pesky quill shaft moving?