The pulleys, belts, motor can all be replaced off the shelf. The mount will survive, and that's all that matters. Which is exactly why I'm attempting to restore this lathe, I know I could go out and buy a brand new one for $1000 or even less, but I love the idea of making this one my own sort of, and all the knowledge that will come going down this path. The metal buckled and raised up where I was tapping it with a hammer to get it off of the main rail!! Hopefully it's not a deal breaker and I can fix it to at least make the lathe functional. Now when I made it to the tool holder? I realized I had made my first and probably game changing noob mistake. I won't doubt I don't find up I'm missing some because of the pressure wash shooting them off in the yard somewhere. I even started throwing in my hand tools I was so impressed.īefore I could get any further, my dad had showed up to accept delivery of my Grizzly G0704 for me while I was at work, and he went ahead and pressure washed the lathe! So now I'm real lucky I have the manual, because I would have no idea what screws went where without it. Granted, I still did a lot of brass brush/wire brush in the drill kinda scrubbing, but ALL signs of rust disappear after a night or two soaking. The Evapo-rust is so far proving to be worth every penny, these fasteners and misc parts came out looking damn near brandnew. I just threw the tailstock in this evening. Hunting around for containers I found some coffee cans I was saving to shoot at, that would fit most parts of the lathe to a satisfactory depth. The rust remover is expensive, I got it on sale at Harbor Freight for $20 something. Then I dust em' with some gun oil to keep em' sharp until(if?) the day of reassembly comes. It comes off easy, but if I'm going to all this trouble, it might as well be the best it can be. I may run some parts through the ringer again just because the evapo-rust is leaving black & yellow goo here and there (like 1 in 10 parts had it, mostly showed up on internal threads). I'm hitting it in the three part process - WD w/ a brass hand brush -> Wire brush in the Ryobi when called for -> Rinse & scrub again w/ Napthla -> Rinse w/ water -> Evapo-rust bath until clean. My new best friends for the past 2 weekends, and probably for the next couple months: To get an idea of how bad it was, here's a before and after of the two base plates:Īt that point, I figured it had a chance of being returned to glory. With that, I had the confidence to dig in and start cleaning things up. (hence the black plastic for the ride home, STINKY)īeing I have zero hands on experience machining, let alone ever had one on one time with a lathe, I used my best friend the internet and was able to find the manual. ^ And that is AFTER it soaked in diesel fuel and had the first coat of burned paint scrubbed off. I forgot to grab pics of the motor mount and pulleys (pulleys & motor melted) Grandpa salvaged this and stashed it in his barn for a rainy day (back in 2005ish), which happened to be when he heard me talking about getting a hobby mill. It went through a massive barn/shop fire that eradicated all of my in-laws most prized possessions.
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I've come into possession of an old 6" lathe, an Atlas 618 to be exact.