New early 1900's Cincinnati Shaper Project

Glenn Brooks said:
Heroic effort!

Try lacquer thinner instead of the pressure can CRC brake cleaner. Way cheaper and works really well for degreasing old dried up way oil.


Glenn
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I am mostly using a green degreaser for the bulk of my chemical removal.
 
Bob Korves said:
Will also fry your brain and your nervous system without proper precautions. Please be careful with hot solvents...
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Iam almost out of lacquer thinner and am rethinking using any more of this stuff. It’s effective, but very toxic, even with lots of ventilation. Might go back to a squirt bottle with diesel, and lots of scrubbing.

Ben, what green product do you use?

Glenn
 
Glenn Brooks said:
Iam almost out of lacquer thinner and am rethinking using any more of this stuff. It’s effective, but very toxic, even with lots of ventilation. Might go back to a squirt bottle with diesel, and lots of scrubbing.

Ben, what green product do you use?

Glenn
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Trying this stuff.
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I use Super Clean, comes in a purple container. Works wonders, spray it on with a weed sprayer, let it soak and use the pressure washer.

Greg
 
Ben
I used Durabar to make a 60 deg. straight edge. It was very unstable and after machining all four sides it warped like a banana.
Had to heat it in my kitchen oven a couple of times which helped but finally set it close to the broiler and cooked it good.
It still moves but only a thousanths or so over time. Have to scrape it back in before use.

Another problem is it has a lot of soft gummy area with harder lines near the outer edges.
This soft area is difficult to get a clean scrape and the hard mix makes it difficult to to scrape to a consistent depth.

This may be due to a certain batch of bar stock but I recomend you normalize the bars before starting.
I like that your using cast iron and think it will give the best service life for the machine.
jim
 
Thanks for the heads up on the durabar. I'll let mine age all winter before working on it. We get a wide variety of temperatures here, from -25C to +15C all winter. I'm sure with a few 'bakes' in the oven it'll normalize well.
 
Yea at the cost of it , it should all ready be stabilised . But ya got to love cast iron it's really an amazing metal.
 
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