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1923 Crescent Universal Wood-Worker No. 108 Restoration Complete (Tons of pics)
Shane Whitlock posted a topic in Old Woodworking Machinery
"Back From The Archives " I finally finished the restoration on the Crescent Universal Wood Worker. I've been putting in a lot of hours on my real job so I have only been able to work on this one on weekends, took almost 3 months to finish. Here's a pic of it before I started. It's been sitting outside for decades rusting away. Things got off to a rocky start ... The owner had it sandblasted before I picked it up. I told him to not let the sandblasters sandblast any machined surfaces and to call me as immediately after it was done. Well he didn't listen. Every surface was hit, the table tops felt like sandpaper, and he let it sit outside for two days after they were done and you guessed it ... it rained both of those days turning everything back to rust again. A pic of me unloading it ... look at all that new rust. Sitting in the shop ready to be to begin restoration. Every part was stripped from the machine, rust removed and then painted or polished. I began by tearing down the jointer first (using my own jointer to store the parts) … and finished with the band saw. The base was lifted so I could get to the underside and strip the rust and give it a new coat of satin black paint. The lineshaft was tore apart, new babbit poured in the bearing blocks, and the pulleys polished and painted. The owner wanted brass washers on all the nuts and bolts so I spent a day and turned over 200 washers on my old South Bend lathe and polished them all by hand. All the parts were cleaned of rust, new babbit also poured for the band saw, jointer, shaper, and table saw, and then the fun part .... painting and putting it all back together. My wife is a real trooper and helped me with all the heavy parts. A cherry picker also comes in handy. (sorry about the smiley face but I had to cover up the boobie shot .. lol ) New rubbers for the tires and some gold pinstriping and the machine is finally done, well almost done ... I still need to make some flat belts to run it. Right now I just have some mule tape on it so I can get some measurements. Nothing looks better than satin black paint with gold pinstripes and polished hardware. I'll be glad to have this one done and out of my shop so I can get to work on my own machines. Hope you enjoyed all the pics, more can be seen here ...http://shanewhitlock.com/photo/v/misc/crescentuniversal/ Thanks for looking, Shane- 54 replies
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