Cleaning 80 year old sump.

The knee probably weighs as much as a Bridgeport. Wacking the able at full extension I could not get impact tremors in the fluid sitting in the table basin. I think it will do good work.
Yea, she's a beast. She needs a bath, I'll bet you need to replace all the wicks, oil tubes, I'm betting they are all gunked up.
But once you clean it up, it'll do good heavy work.
 
Beautiful old machine!
-brino
 
Good point woodchucker. Anythoughts on where to get wicks and swipers. Alas Van Norman is no more.
 
Way swipers should be capable of receiving the correct width felt from McMaster Carr - at least as presented recently by Abom79 & Fenner on other machines. Abomb also covered the replacement of wicks on a shaper he is currently working on. My mill is newer than but not too different from agfrvf's. No mention of wicks in my parts drawings. I will definitely have to check on this. I have oil leak repair opportunities to deal with anyway.
 
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