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Ok me too. I swear I've seen it somewhere either here or on Vintage Machinery...but now can't find picture of the bearing puller someone made for removing the upper bearing off of the front pulley. :headscrat If anyone has any pics of a bearing puller that will work - or other info it would be...

+1 great idea

upper column is not too bad. Lower column (last 2') is questionable. Now that I can spin it on my new lathe...I think I can sand/polish it up and get it presentable. Either here or on another forum I saw a Lathe setup with the post...can't remember what fitting the guy fabricated to hold it...

Sorry it's taken me a few days to follow up on the removal of the post, but I wanted to get the pics uploaded. So after banging on the baseplate for 3 days, and soaking it overnight - I had given up, did the dunk tank with post attached (water level even with top of baseplate) and sanded and...

Re: Drill Presses of Color Thanks - that's helpful...I'm going to stew on this for a week or so...coming around to "power bronze" color if only because it's the original and I've always thought classic cars should keep their original color. My grandmother had a couch that bronze/gold color...

Will get to it this weekend...this work and family stuff gets in the way of my hobbies Not much exciting about whaling away with the hammer on the base but things should get better from here. I had a nice PM from a member and can hopefully acquire his vintage 1/2 HP motor to upgrade the...

Movement! Well after some heat, lots of PB Blaster, 1- 8' 2x4 cut into smaller lengths and pulverized by the BFH...she gave in. Finally I can work on the base and column. I also decided to send off the Chromed parts for a re-do. Unfortunately have to send them across the state as I could...

Thanks - I was thinking 1/4 hp was light. I will see what I can find in the 1/2 hp range circa 1950s. I did received the pulley bearings today -opted for the higher end ones. Now need to work on a bearing puller. Sandblaster would definitely be a help...maybe next time.

Yep that was pretty ugly...I'm thinking mine has also been exposed to a lot of moisture as the bottom is caked with rust. I've wire brushed what I can and soaking in WD40. I did get the set bolt out and filling thr hole with wd40 too. Just a matter of time and some BFH persuasion.

1/4hp....and was just getting to trying to figure out whether to just do exterior of motor or break it open to get into it. I have no experience with any of this stuff...let alone motor rebuilds. I'm going to dig thru the forum on it

Well - still working on getting the base off. So far split 3 2x4 pieces and hasn't budged. Soaking overnight in break-free and will go at it again tomorrow. Meanwhile working on a bearing puller for the front spindle

Agreed - thanks for the reference from your other thread. I'm hoping to order replacement bearings this evening. This morning found the tank looking like this [/URL][/IMG] and when I pulled the head free found [/URL][/IMG] after a quick squirt with a hose - took most of paint off and...

Thanks for the suggestion - inwas wondering what to use for that.

First, thanks to several members who have recently posted on their own restoration projects. I didn't want to hijack someone else's thread...but nearly everything i've done so far is due to the great info posted here in similar threads. I've always loved older tools, and recently restored a...