Steve: Thanks for the encouragement. It might be a while before any smoking chips hit the floor, but I am enjoying just getting it together. I think my wife is jealous of all the time I spend with Logan.
Redlineman: I’ve been stripping parts also. I was washing parts with old stale gas, and stripping with something that advertised a “fresh citrus scent”. It was really hot and humid when I did the stripping, and all I could think of was that there’s probably a “fresh citrus scent” somewhere in hell. I switched to a cleaning product called Krud Kutter and it works well and even takes off a good bit of paint. I picked up a can of that Benjamin Moore paint, and it does match really well. I didn’t strip the cast belt sheave, and I had trouble telling new paint from old. The paint store said it can go direct onto clean metal, but I have a lot of grey oil base primer, so I think I’ll still prime the bare metal before the top coat.
Burnrider: I sure wish I had a decent bandsaw. For plastic I just use a hacksaw. For metal, I have a decent abrasive chop saw, but I have to haul it out in the yard to use it.
Can anyone please advise on a few new issues?
a. I may have trashed a decent spindle bearing (the small one). I pried off one of the shields to get to the inside to clean it out, and now I’m wondering if there’s something I can use to substitute for the missing shield on one side?
b. I didn’t plan on pulling off the nameplates for painting, but the edges look pretty nasty - so I’d like to get it off. The holes for the drive rivets are not thru holes, so I guess they have to be drilled out. Any ideas on the right way to do this? I have a dinky benchtop drill press, but nothing special in the way of bits. Does anyone possibly have a source for those old style short drive rivets?
Many thanks for all the assistance.
TomKro