nine4's projects, restorations and blunders

[nine4gmc]

Love this thread. You do nice work!

Thanks for stopping in!

I've run into a few of that type of table saw, does the saw say King Seeley on it? If I find another one I'll let you know.

Some do, some don't :dunno I'm looking for the 8" bench model with heritage label like this one:
http://vintagemachinery.org/photoindex/detail.aspx?id=143

 

[nine4gmc]

This is both a blunder and a project all in one, make sure you paint your base coat the color you want BEFORE you paper the project After I thought the clear was dry on the paper job, I taped it up and painted the hammertone black. Had one lil tear when the tape was peeled off but overall happy, should have base coated prior to paper. Ignore the tape on the buttons, I still need to put a couple more coats of clear before I remove it.

I went with a machinist themed Dazor refurb for my lathe table and I am most excited with the results!

I even found an old Craftsman 100 drill press in action so you know it had to go on there!

 

[drivesitfar]

nice work 94 and the blunder will give it a little more character and make you wiser on the next project.

got any of those old catalog pages left to start doing all the raking and storage containers?

keep up the nice work and posts

 

[Outlawmws]

That's a great idea and job 9four! I would never have thought of doing a lamp in that format!

 

[nine4gmc]

nice work 94 and the blunder will give it a little more character and make you wiser on the next project.

got any of those old catalog pages left to start doing all the raking and storage containers?

keep up the nice work and posts

Thanks Drives, I don't have enough left but I am looking for more all the time. I plan to do quite a few things around the shop so hang around

That's a great ideaand job 9four! I would never have thought of doing a lamp in that format!

Thanks Outlaw, wait till you see whats next!

 

[sasquatch12]

Agreed, nice piece of work,, cool!

 

[nine4gmc]

Thanks Sasquatch!

Here are a couple lamps I put together recently. The base of one is a harmonic balancer and the other is from an antique electric motor end cap. I had to lathe some bushings for the lamps to fit, one is aluminum and the other is ebony stained hardwood.

 

[sasquatch12]

Pair of cool creative bases there!!

 

[rickhigginshtbr]

the balancer is an awesome idea!

 

[sasquatch12]

They must have sold thoudsands of that style light. They appear everywere.
I use them for machine lights, but remove the first bottom set of arms and springs as i find them too long and flimsy. The holes in the bottom post bracket will fit right on the upper arms , just put it back together.
Makes a pretty good machine light, still swivels and extends/retracts.

 

[nine4gmc]

Pair of cool creative bases there!!

Thanks Sasquatch! The motor base sold today, a lady was torn between the two and finally decided on it, I asked what the plans were(thinking gift), she said she plans to use it on her knitting table.

the balancer is an awesome idea!

Thanks Rick, I had to chuck it in the lathe and cut a lip off the bottom for it to sit stable, then I made the wood bushing to fit the light, real easy task!

They must have sold thoudsands of that style light. They appear everywere.
I use them for machine lights, but remove the first bottom set of arms and springs as i find them too long and flimsy. The holes in the bottom post bracket will fit right on the upper arms , just put it back together.
Makes a pretty good machine light, still swivels and extends/retracts.

I picked up a few at a garage sale a while back for a couple dollars each, couldn't pass them up, even though they are not high quality they still look decent.

 

[GirlnAgarage]

Nine4, I love your work. Sat here at breakfast going through your thread, couldn't read fast enough to see what was on each page. You are a skilled guy and with an eye to see it all before you make the first cut. Great stuff man, keep it up

 

[nine4gmc]

Thanks Girl, but you should see how many cuts it takes me sometimes

Here is a preview of my next tool lamp, ready for clear coating. I did this one in a standard tool theme. There are Channellock, Ridgid, Fleet, P&C, Proto, Petersen, Great Neck and Rockwell ads from the mid 60's magazine on this one.

 

[cbacres]

Nine,
Neat stuff!
Looking at your creations, you're going to cause me to regress and start keeping all kinds of stuff so I can come up with ideas like this.
Enjoyed the posts.
Craig

 

[JTH]

always enjoy looking at your art work! My wife loves your lamps! She saves old magazines and does the same thing with wooden boxes. Thanks foe Sharing. JT

 

[bullitt67]

All I can is WOW!!!! I am impressed,you sir, do OUTSTANDING work !!! I can't believe I have never seen this thread , looking forward to future posts. Subscribed,Mike

 

[-Brent-]

Awesome work. You got a good brain on you, 94!

 

[nine4gmc]

Nine,
Neat stuff!
Looking at your creations, you're going to cause me to regress and start keeping all kinds of stuff so I can come up with ideas like this.
Enjoyed the posts.
Craig

I put a wanted ad for vintage magazines, had a couple calls.

always enjoy looking at your art work! My wife loves your lamps! She saves old magazines and does the same thing with wooden boxes. Thanks foe Sharing. JT

Post up, I'd love to see her work!

All I can is WOW!!!! I am impressed,you sir, do OUTSTANDING work !!! I can't believe I have never seen this thread , looking forward to future posts. Subscribed,Mike

Thanks man, stay tuned I should have some machine updates soon.

Awesome work. You got a good brain on you, 94!

Thanks Brent, it doesn't hang around long, just pops in from time to time.

 

[bonneyman]

I put a wanted ad for vintage magazines, had a couple calls.



Post up, I'd love to see her work!



Thanks man, stay tuned I should have some machine updates soon.



Thanks Brent, it doesn't hang around long, just pops in from time to time. :lol:

You and your brain could drop into my shop any time and teach me a few things! Great stuff!

 

[nine4gmc]

Thanks Bonneyman!

Here I turn lemons to lemonade. I saw this cool little vise at a garage sale a while back with a cheap price on it and immediately snatched it up. I walked around the sale with it under my arm all proud of what I had found, others looking at me crazy. I get home and go to open it and the jaw falls over, it's broken in half. Well, it sat in my parts pile for a while with me contemplating making bookshelf ends with it then all of a sudden it hit me, drill a hole in it and it becomes a lamp!

 

[drivesitfar]

Nine:
sounds like a great idea for an old broken vise, but not sure if just me or if you need to re post the picture(s) because i tried a couple times and no luck seeing it yet.

Edit: nevermind it just came up and helluva idea. nice work!!!

 

[sasquatch12]

Cool idea, and the bookends would be cool also!!

 

[jakemac]

Paint it "Arrest me Red" and you'll have an instant buyer lined up.

 

[zkling]

Cool vise lamp. Maybe weld up the crack for light duty use? You could then have a vise with built in light. Looks like an interesting little vise.

 

[nine4gmc]

Nine:
sounds like a great idea for an old broken vise, but not sure if just me or if you need to re post the picture(s) because i tried a couple times and no luck seeing it yet.

Edit: nevermind it just came up and helluva idea. nice work!!!

Thanks Drive!

Cool idea, and the bookends would be cool also!!

I saw the bookends idea on the internet somewhere, maybe here

Paint it "Arrest me Red" and you'll have an instant buyer lined up.

Funny you say paint it... This is the third paint job, 3rd time is a charm right? First thing I did after noticing it was broken was take it all apart and clean it good. Then I decided to try welding it back up for light duty, came out looking good so I scuffed everything and painted it hammertone. It fisheyed real bad. Waited a few days for it to cure out then tried scuffing and painting it machine gray, it fisheyed again. Talking about pissed.... So I say f'it and put it back together to deal with later and as soon as the jaws make good contact it breaks back apart beside the weld...That's when it went in the parts pile, which brings us to here... Right now, a red paint job on that vise would cost about $495 with me barely making minimum wage

Cool vise lamp. Maybe weld up the crack for light duty use? You could then have a vise with built in light. Looks like an interesting little vise.

Thanks, read above

 

[bareass172]

Not sure if I've posted in this thread before or not, but I just wanted to say that I really enjoy reading it. You have a wonderful knack for what you do and I think a lot of "everyday gearheads" can relate to it.

The vice bookends may have been in a thread I posted a few months back. I had a broken vise and was asking for info on new vises. Someone in that thread bought my broken vise (for the cost of shipping) so they could turn it into bookends. I'm pretty sure you chimed in on that thread, maybe that was it? I think it's an incredible idea too.

Keep up the good work.

 

[drivesitfar]

Only 4 coats of paint on that little vise.another lesson learned and don't you just love those learning lessons. I bet it still didn't use up a can of paint and it looks great now.

I like the idea of vise bookends so going to find some huge 150 pound vises I have for parts and shine them up. Oh and also beef up the shelves or maybe put on back of workbench.

You might want to call a few of the new crissfit gyms to sell them either lockers as is or restored to free up space for more auction buys.

Keep up the great work.

 

[zkling]

Thanks, read above

Ah, I see For future reference stick it on the BBQ for an hour, then weld, then put it back on the grill to cool down. Really should be using hi nickle or a copper alloy for filler but you should be a able to get it to stick for art use with a mig and steel wire. Which is what I assume you used? It still looks really cool.

 

[nine4gmc]

Not sure if I've posted in this thread before or not, but I just wanted to say that I really enjoy reading it. You have a wonderful knack for what you do and I think a lot of "everyday gearheads" can relate to it.

The vice bookends may have been in a thread I posted a few months back. I had a broken vise and was asking for info on new vises. Someone in that thread bought my broken vise (for the cost of shipping) so they could turn it into bookends. I'm pretty sure you chimed in on that thread, maybe that was it? I think it's an incredible idea too.

Keep up the good work.

Thanks Bareass, that thread sounds familiar, probably where I saw it.

Only 4 coats of paint on that little vise.another lesson learned and don't you just love those learning lessons. I bet it still didn't use up a can of paint and it looks great now.

I like the idea of vise bookends so going to find some huge 150 pound vises I have for parts and shine them up. Oh and also beef up the shelves or maybe put on back of workbench.

You might want to call a few of the new crissfit gyms to sell them either lockers as is or restored to free up space for more auction buys.

Keep up the great work.

Lockers are sold, media carts are sold, shop destroyed with a few projects I'm trying to get out for next weekends trade day.

Ah, I see For future reference stick it on the BBQ for an hour, then weld, then put it back on the grill to cool down. Really should be using hi nickle or a copper alloy for filler but you should be a able to get it to stick for art use with a mig and steel wire. Which is what I assume you used? It still looks really cool.

I was going to put the torch on it to preheat it some but being a cheap vise to begin with, I did not want to tie up too much time in it


Here is one from waaaaay back. I picked this Power King up a couple years ago with intentions of flipping but it's been on the back burner. I finally pulled it out a few days ago and broke it down. Next post will be restored.

 

[nine4gmc]

And here it is back together.

 

[Fyrme]

Very Nice work nine.

My whole life as far as my restos, furniture and the garage refurb just got put on hold as of last night. My house, which was not for sale, just might be sold. LOL. We got an offer and we are countering this morning. If it ain't breathing, it's for sale.

 

[Craptain]

Nice work nine. That somehow relates to my comment in the vise thread.
LOL

 

[nine4gmc]

Very Nice work nine.

My whole life as far as my restos, furniture and the garage refurb just got put on hold as of last night. My house, which was not for sale, just might be sold. LOL. We got an offer and we are countering this morning. If it ain't breathing, it's for sale.

Congrats...I think

Nice work nine. That somehow relates to my comment in the vise thread.
LOL

Thanks Craptain and.... yes

 

[nine4gmc]

I must be getting old, it took me two days just to get the top, table and base apart on this thing

Also had to "cut" the chuck off of the spindle. The original owner had booger welded it on pretty good, I broke two cut off blades on the lathe before chucking a 1/4" HSS bit in and taking light cuts. The spindle was bent causing lots of run out, a few minutes with a brass hammer and it's down to what you see here.

 

[Fyrme]

Way to keep at it. I've been there. I just took a fan apart where I tried to get the post off the base without damaging it. I tried multiple times for several days AFTER is soaked in the electro tank for 36 hours. I used heat, PB Blaster, and a couple other things. Finally I chucked it in my vise lightly, and squirt some Acetone/****** fluid mix on it and had it off in 10 min. I love that stuff. The only draw back is that it's high maintenance compared to other penetrating lubes. But it works the best I think.

Is that a press you've posted before? I don't recognize that head. '80's Rockwell?

 

[drivesitfar]

Really nice restore on the Power King Nine!! just curious do you use electrolysis to clean off all that old rust or are you using hand or bench grinders? then to keep it from rusting again are you applying Johnson's wax in the yellow can or do you use something different?

keep those great projects rolling and glad to see the pictures of before and after your magic touch always.

 

[nine4gmc]

Way to keep at it. I've been there. I just took a fan apart where I tried to get the post off the base without damaging it. I tried multiple times for several days AFTER is soaked in the electro tank for 36 hours. I used heat, PB Blaster, and a couple other things. Finally I chucked it in my vise lightly, and squirt some Acetone/****** fluid mix on it and had it off in 10 min. I love that stuff. The only draw back is that it's high maintenance compared to other penetrating lubes. But it works the best I think.

Is that a press you've posted before? I don't recognize that head. '80's Rockwell?

It's a Delta Rockwell 15-665 with production table, I posted it a couple years ago so you probably have not seen it before. Was initially going to restore it for personal use but have since found an Atlas to match my Craftsman/Atlas theme so this will be up for sale when completed.

Really nice restore on the Power King Nine!! just curious do you use electrolysis to clean off all that old rust or are you using hand or bench grinders? then to keep it from rusting again are you applying Johnson's wax in the yellow can or do you use something different?

keep those great projects rolling and glad to see the pictures of before and after your magic touch always.

That lil PK only required the use of my main bench grinder, a Craftsman 1/2 hp block grinder on og stand with a coarse and fine wire wheels.

Wait til you guys see the book shelf I am working on, makes my sticker peck out thinking about it.

 

[jakemac]

I'm not sure I wanna be thinking about your sticker.

 

[nine4gmc]

This was an ongoing project while I tried figuring out the wiring on the motor, finally got it and it is now complete. I cut down the stand from a 6" jointer to fit under a scrap school desk top I repurposed for this project and also added a lock out style safety on/off switch I had in my parts bin. Metal has been polished and protected with "Fluid Film" and painted surfaces have been refinished in Gray and Black Rustoleum Hammertone.

As purchased

And now

 

[Duct Tape Man]

Just a question:

Where do you find the time to get all these projects done?!?