Clausing 8520 Restoration

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And moving right along...

This mill has lots of small bits that needed to be cleaned/replaced





I decided to replace all the bearings in the mill. A lot of them were gritty feeling and not smooth at all.



Bearings were bought from VXB bearings, Great guys to deal with and they shipped pretty quick too.

Unfortunately i need to improve my memory skills...
Once i get going on a project i do not stop often enough to take pictures...
So i do not have many of the individual parts being stripped and primed.
I used a simple gel paint on stripper that seemed to work pretty well.
Afterwards all parts were cleaned with T.S.P prior to priming with red oxide.

The main pillar stripped and the name tag painted gloss black.
I sanded the paint off the raid lettering and polished it.
Looks quite good to me! :)



And then primed with red oxide



All the bearings in the leads crews were replaced and the leadscrews cleaned up




Table all cleaned and coated in a wax to prevent it from rusting again before assembly.
I decided to leave the head in it's original condition as a reminder to what it used to look like.




And some miscellaneous bits and pieces...

The riser



Motor mount



Belt and pulley cover



Table riser and polished leadscrew nut



Top mount



More to follow!

Andrew