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My old Atlas TH42 works well enough. I've had various pieces of it apart to replace worn parts and/or modify things.
I'm getting to the point where I'm getting a little tired of looking at that old, chipped green paint, not to mention the mess of other assorted colors:
So i'm looking at painting it a hammer-tone graphite color. You can see where I did a "test spray" on headstock cover.
The cabinet and the rest of it will go a Ford Blue, like the rest of the shop.
Color choices aside, If I pull the lathe to pieces but leave the Headstock bolted on the ways it should be a pretty simple strip/paint/reassemble process. Correct?
I don't mind doing a few setup things to get it all back into alignment, but I don't want to get into an endless chase of getting the damned thing back to cutting right.
Opinions?
On something besides the color choices that is.....LOL!
I'm getting to the point where I'm getting a little tired of looking at that old, chipped green paint, not to mention the mess of other assorted colors:
So i'm looking at painting it a hammer-tone graphite color. You can see where I did a "test spray" on headstock cover.
The cabinet and the rest of it will go a Ford Blue, like the rest of the shop.
Color choices aside, If I pull the lathe to pieces but leave the Headstock bolted on the ways it should be a pretty simple strip/paint/reassemble process. Correct?
I don't mind doing a few setup things to get it all back into alignment, but I don't want to get into an endless chase of getting the damned thing back to cutting right.
Opinions?
On something besides the color choices that is.....LOL!