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Its just too painful to do that on something not worthy. No matter how long it takes, how tricky it seems, how many iterations, or how much extra doing it properly takes, you don't say good enough until it really is. What makes the reconditioning job turn out great imo is an unfailing approach of no compromise. Do Monarch or DSG or Holbrook as your first project and it'll be fine. I would say you need some scraping experience, but you don't need to start on a beater. I think reconditioning is a little different (it can be broken down into a procedure that if followed will produce excellent results) and there are can also be lots of dollars involved so its not just practiceĪs an overall piece of advice which I stick by, I suppose I'm biased by my way of learning and approaching things but my opinion is you don't need to creep up on reconditioning machine.
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I've seen several lathes that didn't get a full hours scraping time at the factory! I've done many projects, and still do, for the learning so I agree with you in principal. If the only objective is to use a metal lathe and money is the deciding factor then paint, adjust, limit scraping time and sell it for money to buy better. Sometimes the journey is more valuable than the destination, and certainly one wouldn't want to practice on a Monarch. Those among us who have suffered the fool things will understand. Pre-aging it in battery or Muriatic acid prior to burial is cheating. It might be several thousand years before some future-day archeologist recovers it, takes note of fossilized ZAMAK handwheels too small by half for HUMAN hand sizes, and pontifically declaims that 'monkeys had lathes', as just happened this week w/r their use of stone tools to crack-open cashew nut pods. One has to take the 'long view' and have a sense of humour.
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The process involves a backhoe, then paving equipment and hot-mix enough to "resurface" the asphalt driveway under which one has buried the lathe-shaped-object. Is that real or just their way of saying they don't want the work? Are there any other alternatives?It is a very realistic quote. Anyway, the ways have some gouges so I contacted a machine repair place. This is another one of those posts that starts off like "I'm a newbie and am rebuilding a 6" Atlas" Which I am.