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Texas Booty rebuild pictures
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 2:06 am
by rjent
As I know everyone likes pictures, I took some to include here. See the video I reference in the Texas Booty thread:
http://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/maint ... 17571.html
... and the video:
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Re: Texas Booty rebuild pictures
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 3:03 am
by rjent
OK, pictures.
First, I didn't want to molest this machine very much as I am just the second owner of her. Dawn's father apparently lubed the machine with oil and all of the cast iron was just saturated with oil and sawdust. I have to admit, that the machine was very preserved, so oil as a lube is not all that bad. Anyway, I steam cleaned the cast and Aluminum parts then put an etching primer on. After that was dry for a day or so, I painted just about everything with the old Verde Green Hammered (I still had a case of it left). I then over coated with the gold metallic trying to get the hammered look with a non hammered paint. Worked fairly well. This is not a "rebuild" thread, there are a hundred of those here. Go see MickyD's threads for detail rebuild instructions, didn't think we needed another one ... LOL The bearing were all perfect and I just polished the tubs and the table rods (see pictures). I did acquire a Speed changer (bought yet another 51 10ER
for the SC and I got a set of retractable casters for her from Skou. AND, before some of you eagle eyes find the belts fiasco on the SC, those were just staged as I had some belts coming from Skip, but didn't have them yet. The SC works perfectly!
I will post more pictures tomorrow ....
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The Bench boards I lightly jointed and then just took enough off with the planer to reveal the wood again ....
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Table rod polishing jig
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If you have any questions, fire away ....
Re: Texas Booty rebuild pictures
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 6:52 am
by algale
No questions, just a statement: great job!
Re: Texas Booty rebuild pictures
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 8:47 am
by Gene Howe
Wow, Dick. What a gorgeous lady. Downright sexy. As Al said, "Great job".
Re: Texas Booty rebuild pictures
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:45 am
by JPG
NICE!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: Texas Booty rebuild pictures
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 11:00 am
by everettdavis
Very nice.
Someday I hope to see it in person. Still working on that trip with the wife.
Everett
Re: Texas Booty rebuild pictures
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 11:45 am
by ERLover
VERY NICE!!!!
Re: Texas Booty rebuild pictures
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2016 12:28 am
by jsburger
Very, very nice Dick. A beautiful job!
Re: Texas Booty rebuild pictures
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2016 10:39 pm
by rjent
Thanks all! As many of you who have done it, it is a labor of love. I have one more to do. That will give me five ShopSmiths .... what am I thinking!?!
Re: Texas Booty rebuild pictures
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2016 12:25 am
by ERLover
rjent wrote:Thanks all! As many of you who have done it, it is a labor of love. I have one more to do. That will give me five ShopSmiths .... what am I thinking!?!
A you have some of the most coveted machinery around
B you made them into show pieces and workable again
C you enjoyed doing that, even though, I just clean them up and use them and put them to bed wet
C as Skou/Steve sez, "They dont print them any more"
Hopefully they will be with are children/grand children for another 40-50 years
