A small rag used to supply PB Blaster to the B&S's stuck rear chuck backing plate.   Yup seems to have two.

Same treatment for the Sidney's faceplate on the right.

Sidney Hand Wheels and Ball Cranks

When I'm not up to real restoration or its too cold to use chemical I have been polishing these.

The ball crank and the spinner on the hand wheel are the same metal.  When I polished the hand wheels I did a lame job on the spinner thinking it would not polish well.  Will need to correct that.























This afternoon I polished the hand wheel spinners and the compound ball crank.

Found Numbers on Sidney Ways

While doing additional cleanup on the Sidney's ways I found the numbers.

Now to find out if there is any meaning to them.

Brown & Sharp #6 bearings.

Took another look at the B&S #6's spindle today.  Both bearings turn.   The front can be slid down the shaft and look to be in salvageable condition.  You can see the journals through slots in the bearings.  The bottom one is black maybe rusted, could be a problem.   The back turns but has no place to slide to.  The bearings have 2 deep slits and one cut through the bearing.   I made wicks out of rags to provide PB Blaster to the chuck backing plates stuck to both spindles.

Top Bearing Journal

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.

3 Jaw Chuck

After soaking the backside of the chuck for a week with PB Blaster the chuck came apart.  I have been lightly taping the backside with a hammer.  Today I dropped it an inch or to onto the face of the vice.  A crack in the side wall appeared gentle prying with chisels walked the back off.












I expected worse.  This should be an easy cleanup.  But if I want the chuck to look bright it will take a fair deal of work.

Sidney Lathe

Today I did a trial assembly of the apron.  After reviewing the disassembly video it was clear that the halfnut lockout pin was missing and the forks on the rod associated it were not aligned properly.  Could be it was taken apart in an attempt to get it working and failed.  There was not way to fix this without cleaning the gears which mandates a total apron teardown.

I am still confused regarding the clutch. The green paper is making the gray paint look greenish.

My friend Chirpy on Paul's Garage explained to me that the clutch know is left hand threaded and to engage the clutch you back it off pulling the two clutch halves together.  Thanks Chirpy.

Polished the wheel for traversing the carriage along the bed.   Was too tired to do anything that required brains.  Started with 100 grit and worked my way down to 2000.   Could not find any buffing compound.  It may look better with this satin finish.