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Cabinets for tooling - restoration
Stilldrillin:
Classy, Mick! :clap: :clap:
David D
micktoon:
Thanks for the comments lads :thumbup: ,
Andrew they all had the Versatool tags on the back with key numbers, there are two with the internal draws , the shorter of the two had a Bridgeport by Versatool label the other two just had Versatool on the labels. I think the external 'domed' type draws were the oldest and they were probably a cost cutting exercise having the internal flat draws , easier to make and only one lock needed ?
Cheers Mick.
micktoon:
I have moved onto the next stage of the cabinets, the shelves , which looked not bad until I looked harder, various faults on them some needed shims to tighten up the swing out part so it would not drop when opened , general bent edges etc to be knocked out, the two heavier shelves both had the tabs that stop them swinging too far back into the cabinet snapped off so welded some new stronger tabs on them two.
You can see the tab on the thinner shelf at the top of the photo but the wider shelves both had these missing, so I cut two bits of plate to make replacements and welded them on beofre starting to prepare for painting.
Most of shelves were finsihed in black crinkle finish paint that was scraped and flaking off on all the front faces, three of them were silver hammer finish that was also coming off, 13 shelves in total to do( 13 unlucky for some , aye me the mug that had the tedious job of preparing these loll ). I hit the flaking bits with a grinder with soft flap wheel type disc on then went over with a DA sander. Took more doing than you would think as fiddly to hold etc. Eventually they were all clean sanded and de greased.
I was then deciding how to paint them ? due to the frame like nature it was putting me off spraying as too much paint misses the object , you have to keep moving them about etc and lots of mess, I decided to brush some of the areas and then do the rest with small roller. This was a job that you wish you had an apprentice you could get to do. I painted them with two pack primer, so after a good while they looked like this.
I have decided I will spray the black on as could not go through all the brushing again lol thats a job for tomorrow .
Cheers Mick.
Ginger Nut:
Mick they look smik you could always ask the kids to brighten them up a bit and hand them some spray cans let them go to town on them. :poke:
--- Quote --- Hi Pekka, Yes that looks like the one, as you can see mine is an old one , I think I will have had it 25 years, the needle and air cap do make a difference, I have three guns two like this one and one is a blantant copy of this gun with no name on it but still is a good gun. That one his used for primer and has standard needle and air cap, this one is for top coat and has standard needle but alternative air cap that gives finer particles in the spray ( its in the pot steeping , in storage ) the third one is for metalics and has another diffrent needle in it but uses the same air cap as the top coat one.
I was recommended these set ups years ago from a paint sprayer and it seems to work well, I used to get too much orange peel effect on the top coat and patchiness on metalics until I used these needles and air caps.
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Mick this is why I love/d my Sampson one gun one needle one cap does all except heavy undercoat. I still have the gun but I have sneaking suspicion some mongrel swiped my cap and needle or dropped it. Its done everything from spraying a Mini couple of VW's to a number of buses n coaches one which was Metalic.
jb3cx:
Micky looking great ,from the last time I saw them in lambys place ,why don't I just bring my 3 over to you minus the tooling that's in them and do a swap,as you have more space to clean and paint than me ,and save me the job ,hate painting
Peter
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