Here's my Johnson Model B band saw. Before ($20 Craigslist find):
After replacing all the bearings and getting a decent blade on it, it cuts straight! I ended up making new sheet metal parts since the stuff that was on it was in really rough shape. My only regret is doing Rustoleum paint from a rattle can instead of something a bit nicer.
Here's my Johnson Model B band saw. Before ($20 Craigslist find):
And after:
After replacing all the bearings and getting a decent blade on it, it cuts straight! I ended up making new sheet metal parts since the stuff that was on it was in really rough shape. My only regret is doing Rustoleum paint from a rattle can instead of something a bit nicer.
Here's my Johnson Model B band saw. Before ($20 Craigslist find):
And after:
After replacing all the bearings and getting a decent blade on it, it cuts straight! I ended up making new sheet metal parts since the stuff that was on it was in really rough shape. My only regret is doing Rustoleum paint from a rattle can instead of something a bit nicer.
you sure polished up your Johnson real nice. Thanks for showing it to us!
2020-05-21 17.04.46 by don long, on Flickr
2020-05-21 19.13.01 by don long, on Flickr
The two at the back haven’t been touched yet and I have two more, one a lovely English Record in my workshop getting a polish which makes ten vices in all. I think the olive green one is my favourite, it was made in Germany. hope you like them.Hi there, my name is Stuart Goddard from Australia and Im a tool polisher as well. My passion is Australian made tools but good tools from anywhere in the world can make it into my collection. My primary focus is on Australian made G clamps and I have been building sets from various Australian manufacturers for several years. Recently I have been collecting vices. 2 1/2” vices in particular and here is some of my collection. I would love to find a 2 1/2” Wilton bullet vice to add by the way
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Here's my Johnson Model B band saw. Before ($20 Craigslist find):
And after:
After replacing all the bearings and getting a decent blade on it, it cuts straight! I ended up making new sheet metal parts since the stuff that was on it was in really rough shape. My only regret is doing Rustoleum paint from a rattle can instead of something a bit nicer.
I feel like I may have a problem but I haven't seen any strange vans and my family is not visiting. I bought a 58mm throttle body for my '87 Corvette (stock is 48mm). Not wanting to port the OEM intake chamber, I bought a used one on eBay for $55 and opened it up.
I polished the aluminum engine bits years ago so the replacement needed to get the same treatment after I port matched the throttle body to the intake. This is the before/after.
The car is 34 years old with almost 88,000 miles and it has a slight clunk when you put it in gear. I decided to check the universals but of course replaced them when I realized how much work is involved. While the aluminum axles were out, may as well spiff them up a little. You know how people judge you for having dirty axles. One down and one to go.
Al, that's a perfect description. The '87 Corvette has lots of aluminum bits that can be polished pretty easily but the '72 Corvette is mostly steel so it involves a lot more paint.
I feel like I may have a problem but I haven't seen any strange vans and my family is not visiting. I bought a 58mm throttle body for my '87 Corvette (stock is 48mm). Not wanting to port the OEM intake chamber, I bought a used one on eBay for $55 and opened it up.
I polished the aluminum engine bits years ago so the replacement needed to get the same treatment after I port matched the throttle body to the intake. This is the before/after.
The car is 34 years old with almost 88,000 miles and it has a slight clunk when you put it in gear. I decided to check the universals but of course replaced them when I realized how much work is involved. While the aluminum axles were out, may as well spiff them up a little. You know how people judge you for having dirty axles. One down and one to go.
CC, I was searching for a set a couple of months ago when I found the used intake chamber and there were two advertised for around $700. I figured some more realistically priced ones might pop up but so far nothing. Of all the upgrades, those runners seemed to provide limited improvement. You have to remove the lower manifold and do a fair bit of porting to make the SLP runners effective.
