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!

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
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!
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.