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Great job on the restoration Andrew! You'll get many good years of use out of that tool.

Well done!

Ed

Nice work Andrew. Now lets see you get it all dirty

Andrew ,

Awesome restore hope mine comes out as good on my Golk
big thumbs up

Bob

Vaey nice Andrew. The finish is very smooth, did you fill any large dings? if so what did you use?

"Billy G:

Thanks guys!

Bill, i did not find many large dings anywhere on the machine.
The main pillar was a bit of a rough casting but the paint smoothed it out quite nicely.
Everything was painted by hand with various sized brushes.
Took a long time but the results are pretty good!

In other things that i have repaired with dings i used Bondo and it worked really well. Just a lot of sanding...


Andrew

Nice Job Andrew, and a nice mill.

I find it is a great feeling of accomplishment to finish a machine , stand back and see a great looking project finished.

All the time spent grinding, scrapeing, buffing etc is worth it.

Hi Andrew ,

If you could I'd like to get the measurements of your mills footprint
to see if I could fit one in a space I have . Mainly I need width of cabinet and
depth from back of motor to front of cabinet .

Thanks Bob

Hi
Andrew
Thanks for posting such a well documented & photographed re build
The mill looks to be a substantial job
John

(07-25-2012, 07:02 AM)lazylathe Wrote: [ -> ]Everything was painted by hand with various sized brushes.
Andrew

Looks great, What type/brand of primer & paint did you use?