Fun/Workmate/restoring tubes/waxing/thanks
Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 5:37 pm
Sorry I could decide on A title for this post so I went with many.
Some years ago Bill Mayo posted his solution to cleaning the tubes of neglected machines using another shopsmith in lathe mode. Since then a few others have shown what they did to set up and do the same thing. It looked like it could be fun and when I picked up #4 with some rust and dirt on the tubes I knew I was going to try something along that line.
This past weeks discussion of the workmate of course brought that to mind, and I think someone else posted about something like I rigged up... sorry I don't remember who???
Since I'm a picture sort of guy here is what it looked like up until about an hour ago... had to quickly dismantle and put things away as the sky darkened and the wind got to be quite gusty.... just made it before the sky started falling.
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Now before people start reading in to the pictures, the sheet is to protect the shopsmith that is in use so that none of the gunk coming off the tubes being cleaned gets in places it doesn't belong. It is not hiding the new power pro, it is just a plain old 1976 model shopsmith. (If you want to start a rumor then you might consider that a new secret power carriage assembly might be be in testing and that is what is hidden under the sheet. Sure hope the new rack holds up better then the one on the MVII....).
This last picture is the latest secret testing I've been doing. As you might be able to tell it is a piece of flooring plywood about 30 years old. The lubricant is the wax from a new toilet bowl ring. It does get warm but that is about it. After doing the 4 tubes you can start to feeling the wood taking on a slight dip where the tube were rubbing.
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This last idea I have to credit to my wife. As you might guess the tubes are very dirty after you work them over with emery cloth so she happen to be out when I was cleaning them up and ask if I was going to wax them too. I quickly said that was next on the agenda... To tell the true I hadn't even gotten to the point of deciding what was next but the waxing sounded like more fun. I did have to thank her for the idea cause that is the right thing to do.... A little intended pun here, the waxing was a slick thing to do.
Ed
Some years ago Bill Mayo posted his solution to cleaning the tubes of neglected machines using another shopsmith in lathe mode. Since then a few others have shown what they did to set up and do the same thing. It looked like it could be fun and when I picked up #4 with some rust and dirt on the tubes I knew I was going to try something along that line.
This past weeks discussion of the workmate of course brought that to mind, and I think someone else posted about something like I rigged up... sorry I don't remember who???
Since I'm a picture sort of guy here is what it looked like up until about an hour ago... had to quickly dismantle and put things away as the sky darkened and the wind got to be quite gusty.... just made it before the sky started falling.
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Now before people start reading in to the pictures, the sheet is to protect the shopsmith that is in use so that none of the gunk coming off the tubes being cleaned gets in places it doesn't belong. It is not hiding the new power pro, it is just a plain old 1976 model shopsmith. (If you want to start a rumor then you might consider that a new secret power carriage assembly might be be in testing and that is what is hidden under the sheet. Sure hope the new rack holds up better then the one on the MVII....).
This last picture is the latest secret testing I've been doing. As you might be able to tell it is a piece of flooring plywood about 30 years old. The lubricant is the wax from a new toilet bowl ring. It does get warm but that is about it. After doing the 4 tubes you can start to feeling the wood taking on a slight dip where the tube were rubbing.
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This last idea I have to credit to my wife. As you might guess the tubes are very dirty after you work them over with emery cloth so she happen to be out when I was cleaning them up and ask if I was going to wax them too. I quickly said that was next on the agenda... To tell the true I hadn't even gotten to the point of deciding what was next but the waxing sounded like more fun. I did have to thank her for the idea cause that is the right thing to do.... A little intended pun here, the waxing was a slick thing to do.
Ed
