Some Update Photos for all those Voyeurs of 45's !
Starting with the current Electrolysis bath and followed by the badly affected Engine Deck that once re-welded back together and after painting sealed along it's revealing edges underneath will be AOK.
Most of the structural chassis components have already been re-worked and finally finished off in primer awaiting a nice day to rub them back nicely and colour coat them. I must admit I'm a tad reluctant to use the remaining Ultra Colour cans that I've got because they were just so hard to use with them being outdated stock and the spray pattern being all over the place. Nice colour but that's about it I must say. Anyway we'll see.
At this stage I'm not putting much effort into the original cylinder and sole plate as neither one of them will be utilised in this project, oddly the cylinder has done very little work apart from hitting a few things along the way but that's easily remedied. I'll probably do them within the project and then just wrap them up and keep them for the machine incase it later on becomes a cutting machine again at some stage. I always like to keep as much as possible of the original machine with the unit itself.
One thing I must say is that the rear roller had held up really well over the years. If you look closely at it around the joint area in the middle you'll see some terrible casting flaws which would've been there right from the start. Just shows that the Bonnar boys could certainly be a tad slack in the quality control department. But as I've always said, they made use of everything down to the last nut and bolt and a poor casting was just sacrilege to toss out for them or to put it better ................pulling teeth without an anaesthetic .
Anyway that's it so far, but much more to come in the next week or so.
Cheers, BB.
I live a 24 Hour lifestyle, but every now and again I seem to fall asleep, well at least that's what my wife tells me.
