Sidney lathe

Painted more of the gear mechanism that goes on the head end of the lathe.  Moves power from the headstock to the leadscrew and quickchange gearbox.

The image show one of the parts after removal from the electrolysis tank.   The paint has all but fallen off the part.  A bit of time with a wire brush and a pick cleans it up.  Process replaces both stripper and evapo rust if the part fits in the tank.











Cleaned up the bottom half of the compound but did not paint it.  There are just a few small area in the corners that can be painted with a brush.  Cleaned up the compound leadscrew and polished its ball crank a bit.  Put the cross slide ball crank in the evapo rust.

Took the tail stock hand wheel out of the electrolysis tank and scraped off the last bits of remaining paint.

Opened and cleaned the 3 jaw chuck.   The main body is now in the electrolysis tank.   Plan is to clean up the back side when it mounted on the lathe.