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Harrison L5 rescue
John Stevenson:
Had a bit of a play tonight.
Mick sent me this as a picture
Finished up with this.
Doesn't look that good as the detail isn't great to get the whole plate in shot given these letters are all under 2mm.
But if you zoom in it shows just what it *should* come out like.
My CNC router is very good on detail so it should work out OK, I'll get to it one night next week.
Manxmodder:
Very good John, this will be good to see when it's done.....OZ.
micktoon:
Hi Lads a bit more done so here are the latest photos.
John , the plate looks top class :bow: :bow: :bow: cant wait to see the real thing
Oz , looks like you are on a mission now too :thumbup:
Stig, glad I could help you out mate , life is easier when we all help each other when we can.....'spread the wealth' as Bob KRV3000 would say :clap:
Well I have been grinding all the castings and filling in defects with filler and getting them as good as I can before primer, this batch of stuff was all fiddly ackward bits to do and also ackward to position to paint as both sides needed doing on lots of bits etc, anyway here are the photos.
All prepared
Primed with etch primer , then primer filler.
Grey at last !
This cast alloy door has been a right pain, it had loads of old primer filler and many layers of horrible old paint on it , that would have reacted to the new paint so I have sanded it back to bare alloy cast and shot blasted around the Harrison lettering then cleaned this up with riffler files etc as I plan on painting the door and having the lettering sanded back to bare alloy.
With this in mind I have sanded away the primer on the lettering so it wont have an edge when I sand the grey back to alloy.
The Harrison headstock badge and the gear speed plate badge are getting the same sort of treatment.
As they were
Blasted off
Primed
Sanded back to shiny alloy letters
Painted red
Sanded back to alloy on the writing
I should have been happy at that but thought , why not laquer them. The Laquer melted the red and spoilt the job so I will try going over with red again, if it does not work it will be back to metal and start again !
At least I can start to put some more bits back on again now .
Cheers Mick.
bp:
Beautiful, patient work there Mick.
Very, very well done!!
cheers
Bill
RussellT:
Hi Mick
I'm always impressed by the attention to detail on your projects. This lathe will look better than new.
Russell
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