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thieltech,

I saw your surface grinder resto here and on owwm so I knew to check out this thread. I've been working with and restoring machines for years, but I have never seen restorations like yours.

-How do you get your bare/non-painted parts so clean?

-How did you reproduce the speed/feed plates?

Thanks for posting. This thread and your last surface grinder thread are both incredible.
 
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Did you dress up the ways?

I had the ways reground on an Atlas 10x24, but that was a very simple project compared to V-ways of the size of your Sheldon!

Nice job. Makes me wonder what you consider to be a "Major" rebuild.
 
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catalytic said:
thieltech,

I saw your surface grinder resto here and on owwm so I knew to check out this thread. I've been working with and restoring machines for years, but I have never seen restorations like yours.

-How do you get your bare/non-painted parts so clean?

-How did you reproduce the speed/feed plates?

Thanks for posting. This thread and your last surface grinder thread are both incredible.
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sanding and polishing bare metal parts , lots of surface grinder work done on many parts

speed /feed charts were done on a small laser at the local trophy shop.

Thank you for compliments . hope people enjoy .

i know i love finding machine REpair threads with lots of pics !

Gives you sense of being there .

fun seeing others ideas as well ! so much can be learned and always to learn
 
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Provincial said:
Did you dress up the ways?

I had the ways reground on an Atlas 10x24, but that was a very simple project compared to V-ways of the size of your Sheldon!

Nice job. Makes me wonder what you consider to be a "Major" rebuild.
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no the ways were left as is other then stoning and scotch pad , the compound i reground on surface grinder .

i like to joke , about it being a minor project , people say funny things :beer:
 
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this project started oct 20th 2015 and went till january , then i stopped and started again in march 2016.

to give an idea on how long its taken
 
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That turned out sweet! I knew to check the thread when I saw it was you and it saying minor work lol. You did an awesome job!
 
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I had to walk over to the neighbors to see all of the pics to the right, but I saw them. :lol_hitti That's a lot of detailed pics.

Fantastic job on the refurbishing, restoration of the lathe. Looks beautiful:thumbup::beer:
 
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WOW, that is a damn nice job! I'm now going to check out your Covel thread too!

I'd love to go to this extent on my little Rockwell 11" lathe some day, for now it's been torn down into it's sub-assemblies, washed, and will be going back together with new belts, etc. The full tear-down and paint will have to wait for some day when I have more time and another lathe so that I won't be missing it while it's apart. :p

Do you have a thread for other shop projects? Or a website showing the fabrication you do?

-Eric
 
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Holy **** Thiel, that's without a doubt some of the very best restoration I've ever seen. But I have to ask - how you organize pictures, is that a cruel joke or what??. :)
 
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longlivepunk said:
WOW, that is a damn nice job! I'm now going to check out your Covel thread too!

I'd love to go to this extent on my little Rockwell 11" lathe some day, for now it's been torn down into it's sub-assemblies, washed, and will be going back together with new belts, etc. The full tear-down and paint will have to wait for some day when I have more time and another lathe so that I won't be missing it while it's apart. :p

Do you have a thread for other shop projects? Or a website showing the fabrication you do?

-Eric
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Thank you .

i almost didnt do the clean up on this machine because i really wanted a lathe to use right away , but i i figured i made do with out one for 3 years so i just went for it , its been pretty fast paced compared to the covel which was 2 yrs before complete .
this has been about 5 months so far.

i have a small page on facebook Thiel Metal Fabrication .

think it shows the bridgeport repaint job .

it shows a few projects , i should updated it once with 100 new projects etc.
 
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LXCam said:
Holy **** Thiel, that's without a doubt some of the very best restoration I've ever seen. But I have to ask - how you organize pictures, is that a cruel joke or what??. :)
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Thank you , appreciate it .

sorry , iam not much for organized posts with pictures and posting info with the pics .

i tried to post pics as i cleaned up machine .

i had to laugh when i read your comment ! ;)
 
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Re: Minor sheldon lathe clean up ( Picture Heavy ) Oct 20,2015 start

I "liked" your Facebook page, and then had to control myself to keep from "liking" every damn post you ever made![emoji14]You do beautiful work! Have you done a shop tour at all? I'd be interested in seeing one. How many VFD's are you running now? Lathe, 2 in the Covel, belt grinder, drill-press, not sure about the BP?

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Re: Minor sheldon lathe clean up ( Picture Heavy ) Oct 20,2015 start

longlivepunk said:
I "liked" your Facebook page, and then had to control myself to keep from "liking" every damn post you ever made![emoji14]You do beautiful work! Have you done a shop tour at all? I'd be interested in seeing one. How many VFD's are you running now? Lathe, 2 in the Covel, belt grinder, drill-press, not sure about the BP?

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iam a bit OCD when it comes to organized shop , people give me a hard time sometimes lol

i believe 9 .

air compressor , band saw , Bridgeport to

i was thinking about doing a youtube video ..

i watch alot of ox-tools ( tom lipton ) Abom79 on youtube , have learned some much just watchin these guys .

just not sure if my work or shop compares to theres .
but i could still do a video .


and thanks for the compliments much appreciated :)
 
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I guess I just don't see the point of posting endless photos from a library file without a word about what we are seeing or what's going on.
 
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fomocoforrester said:
I guess I just don't see the point of posting endless photos from a library file without a word about what we are seeing or what's going on.
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I can't speak for everyone, but I know what I'm seeing. It's not a step by step how-to, just some ******** machine-****![emoji14]
Besides, a picture is worth 1000 words, right?

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