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Circle cutter - clean up.
Divided he ad:
I specifically said Clean up in the title cause I don't class this as a full re-con job.
But, here's what I'm doing...
I have a rather large circle cutter that I purchased off e-blag many moons ago. You see I had strange images of trying some metal spinning and for that I would need metal discs.
So the process went thus:
Buy a circle cutter and make your own discs cause 1, it's easier than mail ordering them and 2, it'll be fun!
Well, I went looking and found 3 for sale. 2 of them listed circles upto 40" and 1 of them circles upto 18" . So I bid on the "smaller" one.
I think the guy selling it had as much knowledge about what he was selling as I did over what I was buying! :palm: :loco: ::) :doh: And any other smiley that fits the bill!
What I ended up with was a pallet delivered to my works yard with about 20 stones worth of cast iron on it :jaw:
It was as big as the other 2 and that was far, far too big! The throat on this thing is approx 18" and that's able to make 36" circles!!!!
So, it lived in the back of the garage till last week, it now has a new mission.... clean up, paint, re-assemble and sell! I need DRO's! :zap:
Right. Now that you know the history, how about a look at the present?
Exibit A
The business end
And the start of the strip down...
The throat removed and it's rusty shim block.
The lower cutter ass'y
The upper cutter ass'y
The rusty main body behind the upper cutter ass'y (the wet look is the oil that I covered it in when I first got it)
The main body and all peripherals after a few hours stripping it completely and cleaning off all that bloody awful paint. It appears that the guys who sold it sprayed it with some weird paint? It was sprayed over hardened grease and basically I scraped most of it off by hand.
I used a wire cup brush on a drill to clean off the rest on the body and cutter bodies. The big throat section took the paint they used and the wire brush barely touched it so it's staying as an undercoat.
These pic's were taken after dark so the flash was used... I'll get more in daylight when I next get on it. Working all this weekend so it'll probably be one evening next week or next weekend before I start again.
More to come....
Ralph.
Stilldrillin:
By 'ek Ralph........
That's a BEAST! :bugeye:
Never seen one of those before..... :scratch:
Should clean up very nicely. :thumbup:
David D
Divided he ad:
--- Quote ---By 'ek Ralph........
That's a BEAST! :bugeye:
--- End quote ---
David,
:lol: I've heard that before!! Not quite in the same context though :lol:
My aching back is testament to the huge quantity of metal in this beast I have to drag it around when it's all built up. I can just about lift the broken down parts without collapsing!
I'm hoping it will clean up well.... It's worth quite a bit if the others I've seen are set at the going rate... I just need to find a buyer in a few weeks... Well, before Harrogate if possible???
Ralph.
Bogstandard:
Keep going Ralph, think of all those flashing digits of a shiny new DRO you will be able to buy if you manage to get a buyer in time. :dremel:
John
Divided he ad:
Ok, been a while on this cause of my glass back....
I got some done at the beginning of the week but I couldn't post cause my monitor blew up! :zap:
Well, a couple of capacitors busted and it stopped working.... but that's another story.
Right, on with the show...
I cleaned everything up and decided to paint it.... As I said before I do not like that funny colour paint they always seem to use on old machinery so....
I went with black!
The cutter bodies.
The main body, all mating surfaces masked off.
The horseshoe with the mating faces masked off.
And then thought the moving parts might be better in a colour that stands out....
It's not finished yet. There are bits that require a bit of machining and some of the painted parts need some paint removing from the mating faces.
But it's certainly getting there :dremel:
Ralph.
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