Sunday, February 7, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Future project: Fathom playfield swap
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Craftsman 1958 drill press
Craigslist find - 1958 model, with 1/2hp motor. HEAVY cast iron, with Jacobs chuck that is still tight.
Since I plan on using it (was keeping my eyes open for this exact style), and the paint has a lot of discoloration and wear, thought I'd repaint it. I found a near exact match.
Everything was disassembled, removed from the cast iron part. Some was hand polished, some tumbled for a few days. The cast iron was cleaned, sanded so the new paint would bite, and wiped with Naptha a million times. The machined surfaces were cleaned with lacquer thinner.
Here's the first coat of new paint going on:
Here are a couple of pictures after reassembly, minus the motor:
The table part and base will be repainted this spring.
Since I plan on using it (was keeping my eyes open for this exact style), and the paint has a lot of discoloration and wear, thought I'd repaint it. I found a near exact match.
Everything was disassembled, removed from the cast iron part. Some was hand polished, some tumbled for a few days. The cast iron was cleaned, sanded so the new paint would bite, and wiped with Naptha a million times. The machined surfaces were cleaned with lacquer thinner.
Here's the first coat of new paint going on:
Here are a couple of pictures after reassembly, minus the motor:
The table part and base will be repainted this spring.
Dracula flipper rebuild parts
Dracula cabinet repaint
Lower cabinet before:
Nasty and stained inside:
Everything including ground braid and side rails was removed, leaving only the wood cabinet. I sanded it with 80 grit inside and out. Scratches were filled, resanded with finer sandpaper..primer..sand..primer, etc...
Mid-way through the process-:
Semi-gloss latex Olympic paint was matched to a piece of backbox trim. Mix was 80% paint, 15% water, 5% Floetrol. 4 or 5 very thin coats, sprayed from a cheap HVLP gun, inside and out. No runs at all.
Full paint towards top of cabinet/inside. Painted inside front, mostly to cover staining. Feathered it out towards bottom of cabinet, as factory did:
At this stage, I'm tracing the art back onto the frisket film, with the result being stencils stuck to the cabinet:
Yellow layer already applied, black stencils applied, spraying black at this point:
Black layer finished, stencils pulled away. Not perfect, but close enough. I did a slight amount of touchups with a brush and wet sanded a few runs that I had in the yellow layer:
Speaker board was repainted white. Everything cleaned, hand polished, or tumbled.. It's going to back together:
Nasty and stained inside:
Everything including ground braid and side rails was removed, leaving only the wood cabinet. I sanded it with 80 grit inside and out. Scratches were filled, resanded with finer sandpaper..primer..sand..primer, etc...
Mid-way through the process-:
Semi-gloss latex Olympic paint was matched to a piece of backbox trim. Mix was 80% paint, 15% water, 5% Floetrol. 4 or 5 very thin coats, sprayed from a cheap HVLP gun, inside and out. No runs at all.
Full paint towards top of cabinet/inside. Painted inside front, mostly to cover staining. Feathered it out towards bottom of cabinet, as factory did:
At this stage, I'm tracing the art back onto the frisket film, with the result being stencils stuck to the cabinet:
Yellow layer already applied, black stencils applied, spraying black at this point:
Black layer finished, stencils pulled away. Not perfect, but close enough. I did a slight amount of touchups with a brush and wet sanded a few runs that I had in the yellow layer:
Speaker board was repainted white. Everything cleaned, hand polished, or tumbled.. It's going to back together:
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