Peter Wiley wrote:

What he said. I used to strip old machines back. Then I decided it was
a waste of time seeing as how I bought them to cut metal, not be museum
pieces, and any new paint job was gonna get damaged anyway. Now I just
clean off old caked oil, grease etc and put them into service.

PDW

In article , Grant Erwin
wrote:


Why remove all the filler? All this baloney about "gotta get down to bare
metal" I now think is pointless. If the stuff hangs on there like glue,
just PAINT OVER IT.

I learned this when I redid my Walker Turner band saw. I insisted on every
square millimeter of cast iron being clean and then I painted it. Sure, it
looked great. Now it's usually covered with chips, who cares?

GWE
I understand - but my restored 1930 Delta drill press that I painted in 'cover the Earth"
Machine Green has held up nicely over 40 years. The original coat was failing and the
machine would have likely rusted to death in the salt leaden air of the old house we lived
in.

Martin

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