07-02-2015, 08:29 PM
The beauty of bug shapers is of course that they don't mind the weather so much, take a wire brush to the cross rail and vertical slides and even heavy looking rust comes off to leave clean smooth metal and of course the ram slides and ways are almost always self protected as a result of the basic design, add to this that the ram ways are usually well oiled, so
1, check the electrics and belts,
2, clean the cross rail and vertical slides before moving any of the slides of course,
3, clean any exposed ram slide areas that have been exposed
4, Oil it up
5, skim the top of the table,
And then you've usually got a workable machine,
I bought a 24" Austolite that had sat outside at a coal mine for at least ten years, as the mine had been closed that long. I did the above, after that she was perfectly serviceable if not pristine. Quite the deal at 12 cents a Kilogram.
Best regards
Rick
1, check the electrics and belts,
2, clean the cross rail and vertical slides before moving any of the slides of course,
3, clean any exposed ram slide areas that have been exposed
4, Oil it up
5, skim the top of the table,
And then you've usually got a workable machine,
I bought a 24" Austolite that had sat outside at a coal mine for at least ten years, as the mine had been closed that long. I did the above, after that she was perfectly serviceable if not pristine. Quite the deal at 12 cents a Kilogram.
Best regards
Rick
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