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Thus far, I moved the manual machine into my workshop area and am about 90% finished with cleaning it. I used mineral spirits, rags and brushes. It is looking pretty nice and allthough I hate the cream color that all of our machines from work are painted, I may just leave it for now as it is Polane paint and has a decent shine (too bad the numbskulls at work had not spent a little more time prepping and a bit better job of masking).

I will probably leave the CNC mill in the other big bay of my hangar/shop untouched for quite some time. It is in really good shape and appears to have very little use (it was purchased new in '78 I believe and was immediately converted to CNC by the original owner of the company I work for. It was only used sporadically for about 10 years by our top machinists).

Here is the manual machine as it sits in my workshop room now.









I just ordered a "static" 1/4-3hp phase converter on-line for $79.00 and will probably eventually hook it to a 2-3hp idler motor to basically have a low cost "rotary" phase converter. I still need to run some conduit from my welders circuit breaker box and probably add another breaker to it.
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Last edited by Tim Hancock; 09-25-2007 at 05:10 AM..
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