DIYbanter - Monarch Series 61 rebuild

On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:10:59 -0500, Wes
wrote:

Ned Simmons wrote:
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Some before, during, and after pics.
http://www.nedsim.com/Monarch61Rebuild/index.html

Very nice looking machine! It probably didn't look that nice when new.

Wes

Thanks, Wes. It was pretty ugly -- worse than it appears in the before
pics. It had apparently been passed around the military and military
vendors. There were property tags from the Cincinnati Ordnance
District and Allison Transmissions. The guy I bought it from was a
rigger who picked it up at the Watervliet Arsenal. He had it in an
unheated garage for a couple years, but had the smarts to keep it
slushed with grease. The coolant sump was plain disgusting.

On the other hand, it doesn't appear to have seen an awful lot of use,
and had only been repainted once.

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Ned Simmons