[PROJECT] Bridgeport Rebuild

[Old Minger]

So over the last few days I re blacked some of the hardware and put the ram and ram adaptor on the machine.

   
   

My first time blackening anything. To be honest i didn't have to do this but this project is all about learning for me and i was curious about the process. However it does look nice once its done.

Had a few problems getting the ram adaptor to rotate through its full movement until i realised that I had the worm gear upside down. Unfortunately it took me a couple of goes of assembling and disassembling the adaptor to work this out so the paint work got a bit of a bashing.
   

Here is the ram finally on the turret with its newly blackened hardware.

   


Next up is the rebuild of the head itself. I imagine this will take me quite sometime.

Cheers for now

John