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I'll be well pleased if mine comes out that good.
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Did you get new badges for it atconut or tart the old ones up somehow?
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i just gave them a clean with a rag and a bit of duck oil (wd40) the one on the front is quite scratched. Most people just need a good useable drill so a good clean and oil is fine i would'nt expect most people to go to the lengths that i do after all it's not a competition. you would'nt think so looking at it now but this drill was in a very poor state. the motor shaft was a mess and the pulley was wrecked. there was hardly any paint on it the handle was bent and the table was full of holes so i had to give it a full rebuild. anyway enough waffle i feel like i'm hijacking Perrys thread so keep up with the pics Perry and don't think it has to be a show stopper
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Joining the Fobco appreciation thread with mine, collected from not of Birmingham from the estate of a former engineer who had passed away:
The photo was from the day I collected it and brought it home. I've added a new single phase motor and control unit since then, plus I built a small table for it. I've since added a 3/4" ply shelf below for the vices and other accessories.
I have thought about painting it at some point, but in the grand scheme of things, it's a low priority.
I'm sure you've all seen this great restoration? http://fobco-restoration.tumblr.com. The finished one in the pics sold for over £300 via eBay if I recall correctly...
The photo was from the day I collected it and brought it home. I've added a new single phase motor and control unit since then, plus I built a small table for it. I've since added a 3/4" ply shelf below for the vices and other accessories.
I have thought about painting it at some point, but in the grand scheme of things, it's a low priority.
I'm sure you've all seen this great restoration? http://fobco-restoration.tumblr.com. The finished one in the pics sold for over £300 via eBay if I recall correctly...
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very nice Cris i like the stand. definitely don't paint it (my opinion) only paint them if they are a basket case. it may have a few chips and knocks but it's good enough to leave as is. looking at the before and after pics of the restoration i would'nt have painted them either. they just needed a good clean
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a good honest machine . don't paint it its a workhorse not an ornament 
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This thread reminds me to get on and rebuild mine, although it's in a worse state than any of the ones posted so far. I bought it on evilbay and picked it up one evening and I didn't really have too close a look at it and paid too much ( I won't say how much, but it was), as will become apparent
. A few days later I managed to get a bit of time to have a good look at it, the previous owner, who was apparently dead, had made some "improvements" all of which will have to be rectified. It's got a morse taper, but it seems the moron had decided that getting a morse taper shanked chuck was going to be too much trouble so he welded (using Gasless mig by the look of it) a plain shank chuck into it
. I'm going to cut it off and see if I can rescue the taper, fingers crossed. The next botch up came to light when I took the top cover off to investigate the "ticking" sound when it was running( that's the only good bit that it ran) It would seen that he didn't like the idea of being able to change speeds or he knacked the old pulleys, he'd plonked on some single pulleys, but with oversize holes, as in around 5mm too big, never mind, just use longer bolts to fit them to the spindles. As a result the pulleys ran an elliptical path which destroyed the top bearing, I found most of the balls in the greasy clag that filled most of the insides of the drill,the ultrasonic wash at the place I used to work sorted most of the clag. The depth stop has half of the casting broken off and the switch gear has been mutilated at some point in its life. These are most but not all of the things wrong with it, so it needs a chuck, pulleys and belt, bearings, possibly a new quill, switchgear and a movable table as that was missing as well. So it's been sat, part dismantled under various benches for a while waiting for me to either scrap it and put it down to a bad buy or spend some non existent cash and rebuild it. One of these days I going to buy something that hasn't been butchered and is worth what I paid for it and have a good look at what I'm buying and walking away if its tatered.
. A few days later I managed to get a bit of time to have a good look at it, the previous owner, who was apparently dead, had made some "improvements" all of which will have to be rectified. It's got a morse taper, but it seems the moron had decided that getting a morse taper shanked chuck was going to be too much trouble so he welded (using Gasless mig by the look of it) a plain shank chuck into it. I'm going to cut it off and see if I can rescue the taper, fingers crossed. The next botch up came to light when I took the top cover off to investigate the "ticking" sound when it was running( that's the only good bit that it ran) It would seen that he didn't like the idea of being able to change speeds or he knacked the old pulleys, he'd plonked on some single pulleys, but with oversize holes, as in around 5mm too big, never mind, just use longer bolts to fit them to the spindles. As a result the pulleys ran an elliptical path which destroyed the top bearing, I found most of the balls in the greasy clag that filled most of the insides of the drill,the ultrasonic wash at the place I used to work sorted most of the clag. The depth stop has half of the casting broken off and the switch gear has been mutilated at some point in its life. These are most but not all of the things wrong with it, so it needs a chuck, pulleys and belt, bearings, possibly a new quill, switchgear and a movable table as that was missing as well. So it's been sat, part dismantled under various benches for a while waiting for me to either scrap it and put it down to a bad buy or spend some non existent cash and rebuild it. One of these days I going to buy something that hasn't been butchered and is worth what I paid for it and have a good look at what I'm buying and walking away if its tatered.
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Finally got it back together....
Filled the holes in the plate with JB weld and went against the advice and painted it. Now at least any holes or chips will be down to me.
The inbuilt power switch was a bit suspect so I replaced it with an NVR, bracketed on to the switch mounting holes. Motor is a new 0.5hp single phase.
Filled the holes in the plate with JB weld and went against the advice and painted it. Now at least any holes or chips will be down to me.
The inbuilt power switch was a bit suspect so I replaced it with an NVR, bracketed on to the switch mounting holes. Motor is a new 0.5hp single phase.
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Brilliant Job on the on the Fobco Atconut.
Just bought an Elliot Progress and intend to do a similar job on it.
Problem: Mine has the motor mounting plate missing along with the motor.
Motor not a problem but would love to locate a mounting plate as they are a cast plate like the Fobco.
Not in my remit to manufacture one.
Just bought an Elliot Progress and intend to do a similar job on it.
Problem: Mine has the motor mounting plate missing along with the motor.
Motor not a problem but would love to locate a mounting plate as they are a cast plate like the Fobco.
Not in my remit to manufacture one.
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theres a fobco motor mount on fleebay at the moment don't know it's the same as yours i could measure mine
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that would look great in my workshop
