Harrison L5 lathe rebuild

[Micktoon]

Those plates look total class but I have gone with plan B as I dont think they would have Harrison plates anyway probably , John Stevenson off Madmodders forum is having a go at making some with his CNC gear, he has done some of te artwork which you can see on madmodders , under my thread ' Harrison L5 rescue', they look spot on in artwork form so fingers crossed they should come out great.

Well I have been grinding all the castings and filling in defects with filler and getting them as good as I can before primer, this batch of stuff was all fiddly ackward bits to do and also ackward to position to paint as both sides needed doing on lots of bits etc, anyway here are the photos.

All prepared


Primed with etch primer , then primer filler.


Grey at last !


This cast alloy door has been a right pain, it had loads of old primer filler and many layers of horrible old paint on it , that would have reacted to the new paint so I have sanded it back to bare alloy cast and shot blasted around the Harrison lettering then cleaned this up with riffler files etc as I plan on painting the door and having the lettering sanded back to bare alloy.



With this in mind I have sanded away the primer on the lettering so it wont have an edge when I sand the grey back to alloy.



The Harrison headstock badge and the gear speed plate badge are getting the same sort of treatment.

As they were


Blasted off


Primed


Sanded back to shiny alloy letters


Painted red


Sanded back to alloy on the writing


I should have been happy at that but thought , why not laquer them. The Laquer melted the red and spoilt the job so I will try going over with red again, if it does not work it will be back to metal and start again !
At least I can start to put some more bits back on again now .

Cheers Mick.