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My Hercus 9 Restoration.

wm460

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My Hercus 9 Restoration has finally started.

Finally got a nice cool day for a change, only 41°C. :whistling:

So I thought I would start cleaning up my Hercus 9 and try and keep the missus happy.
You might remember my thread about this lathe I saw advertised in Alice Springs at a recycling yard ( Alice is the closest town 500 Km away) in March last year, I only wanted the stand for my Hercus 260, but when I picked it up I found out it was an Hercus ARL.
When I bought her home, I had to dismantle her to get her off the trailer and stacked the parts on an obsolete hospital bed, 6 month later I transferred to a different department at work so bought home my bench that I originally took there because it was too big for my shed.
For some reason the missus is keeps whinging about 2 lathes, a hospital bed and a bench on the back veranda, strange woman.

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Morse

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Flat bars and your hydraulic press. My guess.
You’ll do your usual expert restoration Mark. Keep the pictures coming.

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Vic Perrin

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What a great project Mark, looking forward to seeing how you progress with it. Keep the pictures coming! You should have no problem with paint drying when you get around to painting it with the weather you have down there :drool:
 

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Yep, keep the piccies coming Mark. It would be great to see the work in progress as it happens.

You should have no problem with paint drying when you get around to painting it with the weather you have down there :drool:
The trick is to get the paint off the brush and onto the machine before it dries i guess:whistling:
 

wm460

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Yep, keep the piccies coming Mark. It would be great to see the work in progress as it happens.

Will do, but it will be a long job I reckon.:thinks:

The trick is to get the paint off the brush and onto the machine before it dries i guess:whistling:

That is a problem some times, I have had a paint brush sticking to tube as I tried to paint it.:rant:
 

wm460

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I attacked one side of the cabinet this morning cleaned of the paint and rust from the outside and underneath.

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I was wondering how to cleaned up the corners etc, and the inside, I have been using an angle grinder with wirebrush.

My angle grinder are too big to fit inside the cabinet.

I dont have access to sand blasting equipment.


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Nice project Mark.

Clean the paint off of the outside of the tailstock to see if there any pins screws that are hidden by the paint. have you got a picture of the bottom of the tailstock (careful wording there as this is a family site)
 

wm460

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Nice project Mark.

Clean the paint off of the outside of the tailstock to see if there any pins screws that are hidden by the paint. have you got a picture of the bottom of the tailstock (careful wording there as this is a family site)

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The grub screw you see at thge top of the T/S, there is one on either side to center the T/S to the Headstock.

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These two holes presumably oilers, are not threaded as I would have thought, doesnt appear that any thing has been knocked out/off.
There would have had to be something to stop swarf, dirt and crud getting tin there?:thinks:

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Have you removed the two grub screws to see if that gives you more movement to remove the bottom section of the tailstock
 
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