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Laverdaroo:
I think youre probably right mate, I still have my Dad's which he always had as long as I can remember, that has no paint on it either and just rust red.
Apart from the wood, they never seem to die so the? Think yoiure a MASSIVE tart for thinking of powder coating it but if you do it I'll have to do mine and I cant afford it at the moment after buying those shells and it sounds a fab idea! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Oddjob:
I've never claimed NOT to be a massive tart ;D ;D ;D
Halfway done and already made a few mistakes. Saw the back edge of the stationary board was level with the mounts, as my wood is slightly wider I just centralised the holes, bloody winding handles wouldn't turn then as they hit the wood. Remove all over again and having to redrill the holes is annoying.
Try getting the winding mechanism out, had to grind 2 of the washers off as the split pins in the handle wouldn't come out and when one did it still wouldn't come off the bar. Bloody nightmare this is turning out to be.
SteveD CB500K0:
I wonder if there’s a forum where you can get advice on restoring 50-year-old Black & Decker Workmates.
I have two.
One was my dads and one mine which he bought me in the late 70s.
I bought my son one when he bought his first house
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Oddjob:
The project is stopped. Black and Decker in their wisdom decided to secure the work top to the metal underneath by just drilling a hole in the wood and using an 8mm bolt/screw fully threaded and forcing the bolt to, in essence thread itself into the wood. I experimented with hole sizes on a spare piece of wood. 6mm was too small, couldn't get the bolt started, 7mm was too big so settled for 6.5mm. 3 bolts went in ok but one just span and TBH the other 3 didn't feel that tight. So I decided to countersink the wood and fit some 8mm nuts in there instead. I thought I had the correct length bolts but found them 5mm too short. I have hundreds of bolts lying around but could I find 8 x 8x45mm ones. Nope. So onto ebay and found some in stainless. In a few days they'll arrive and I can finally finish this. The wood is done, holes for the pegs are drilled and the bolt holes are done. Just need the bolts now and I can get round to finishing this.
If you ever try this Steve, good luck getting the handles off the threaded bar. Nothing I did made any difference.
Laverdaroo:
Rattle cans it is then! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
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