Clausing 8520 Restoration

[EdK]

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

Well done!

Ed

[Mayhem]

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

[truckin23]

Andrew ,

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

Bob

[Bill Gruby]

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

"Billy G:

[lazylathe]

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

[sasquatch]

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.

[truckin23]

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

[doubleboost]

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

[petertha]

(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?