This is awesome work. I love seeing people with real skill making a cracking job of restoring these old tools. How long did the scraping take? Can I ask where you learn't to scrape? Are there courses in the UK for learning alignment and stuff as I have a few old machines coming and would like to confidently have a crack at doing this myself.
Looking good. were you happy with the alignment pre' adjustments to the inverted V ways or were you surprised that it had the discrepancies measured (more than you thought)? From what I recall you had left those V ways until last so they were unscraped at that point and it merely showed the wear left in them ... - does that make sense ? I just about finished my shaper and skimming the table top to clean it up showed up a few 'errors' I could not explain. Much head scratching involved. Thanks for the update - its looking great by the way. All the best Mat
Thanks Mat. I only scraped the knee for contact and so expected the ways to slope down, the inverted vees were scraped parallel but not to the same height. I left it to this final scraping activity to pull these into alignment. Thankfully I did not have too much to take off. Im glad the scraping is over, I was getting a bit bored with it!
I love seeing this kind of job move along.reminds me I need to get back to my 1931 south Bend gap bed
there is always a queue of projects isn't there!
Machine shop at the bottom of the garden I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have three or four things in the queue
This is awesome work. I love seeing people with real skill making a cracking job of restoring these old tools. How long did the scraping take?
Can I ask where you learn't to scrape? Are there courses in the UK for learning alignment and stuff as I have a few old machines coming and would like to confidently have a crack at doing this myself.
Looking good. were you happy with the alignment pre' adjustments to the inverted V ways or were you surprised that it had the discrepancies measured (more than you thought)? From what I recall you had left those V ways until last so they were unscraped at that point and it merely showed the wear left in them ... - does that make sense ? I just about finished my shaper and skimming the table top to clean it up showed up a few 'errors' I could not explain. Much head scratching involved.
Thanks for the update - its looking great by the way. All the best Mat
Thanks Mat. I only scraped the knee for contact and so expected the ways to slope down, the inverted vees were scraped parallel but not to the same height. I left it to this final scraping activity to pull these into alignment. Thankfully I did not have too much to take off. Im glad the scraping is over, I was getting a bit bored with it!
really nice job, where do you buy your scraping tools ?
mainly ebay or flea markets, the key is to buy things when they are cheap, not when you need them!