Today I acquired...........

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Any pics?

Googgle is your best bet.

 

[Arc Tourist]

Put an advert out for fly press wanted and this came up.

Not sure who made it as the plate has gone. No idea if it’ll do what I need but can always sell it on I suppose. .................................

Looks like a Smart & Brown toggle press.

 

[indy4x]

Dana 44 rear axle with open diff and a 4.1 R&P for a Dana 30 high pinion diff

 

[James1979]

Looks like a Smart & Brown toggle press.

That’s what I’ve found from google-ing it but glad you agree as well. Trying to find more info but not easy.

 

[nickk]

some Flashback arresters,mine were all very old,although in 36 years I’ve never had a flashback ,of the dangerous type anyway ha ha.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

That’s what I’ve found from google-ing it but glad you agree as well. Trying to find more info but not easy.

Machinery - Bracehand Ltd

Find out about our machinery suppliers Bracehand Ltd

www.machinery.co.uk

He might be able to help.

Nice chap. Met him a couple of times.

 

[lotus_esprit_s1]

A seized up ML7.

 

[Cobbler]

I can’t put a like against the state of that, but I bet it will clean up with a bit (lot) of work.

 

[Pete.]

A seized up ML7.View attachment 277929

That'll come back to life right enoughDon't mov the saddle until you've scraped off the rust. a paint scraper will do it at first. Now that the tailstock has been moved you need to remove it and clean the rust that'll be stuck on the base ways.

 

[dobbslc]

Who would do that to a lathe?

 

[bigegg]

That'll come back to life right enoughDon't mov the saddle until you've scraped off the rust. a paint scraper will do it at first. Now that the tailstock has been moved you need to remove it and clean the rust that'll be stuck on the base ways.

Plasterer's bath from Toolstation, filled with citric acid, would be my first step.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Plasterer's bath from Toolstation, filled with citric acid, would be my first step.

A what bath?

I have seen a old enamel bath used in the past. Or a cheep Tesco paddling pool.

 

[northwest]

Harrison 140 ball turning attachment (at least, that's what it was used on), belonged to my late great uncle. Hoping to make it fit my M300, after I have restored it:

 

[Cobbler]

Plasterer's bath from Toolstation, filled with citric acid, would be my first step.

old bungalow bath. Is that the same, that’s what I’ve seen plasterers use. Can’t be many left of them now.

 

[Blue Chips]

Who would do that to a lathe?

One-armed Jack, maybe? (i.e., someone who had a close encounter of the painful kind with a lathe, perhaps.)

 

[Arc Tourist]

A seized up ML7.View attachment 277929

Nice project for those rainy days and well worth the effort. I've restored an old Atlas lathe in similar condition; and I'll bet the price was right too.

 

[bigegg]

A what bath?

I have seen a old enamel bath used in the past. Or a cheep Tesco paddling pool.

One of these:



I just had a look, and Toolstation don't sell the bigger ones: not sure if 4ft is long enough to take a lathe bed.
(I had a 5ft one that was big enough to use as a bath: I turned it into a fishpond)

Actually: a plastic fishpond would probably work just as well?

 

[Blue Chips]

A seized up ML7.

It may look worse than it actually is. Maybe you'll get lucky. A friend had an old South Bend lathe, and the ways were just as rusty looking, but they cleaned up very nicely with nothing but a Scotchbrite pad and some oil. A citric acid bath is, as mentioned, another possibility after a thorough degreasing. If you can't find a long enough trough, you could throw together a wooden box and staple in some heavy polyethylene sheet, EPDM, or whatever is resistant to citric acid. I've made such a trough for some long items when I was experimenting with electroplating. It should be a fun project.

 

[Onoff]

A what bath?

I have seen a old enamel bath used in the past. Or a cheep Tesco paddling pool.

I literally have a dedicated plastic bath someone was chucking:

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I literally have a dedicated plastic bath someone was chucking:

View attachment 277961

Way back when, when 35mm film was the best. I once "borrowed a big paddling pool and de rusted a LR chassis, followed by a LR bulkhead