Thanks for the safety tip. Good luck restoring your unisaw. I might be buying a 1949 10" tilting arbor saw. Really small model, 34-160. I also took delivery of a 1986 Delta 10" contractor saw, 34-410, with 2 wings.
Interesting series, I recently bought a circa 1951 unisaw at a scrap yard. It has a heavy rolling base. I applaud your mention of safety practices such as eye protection. However, you demonstrated an unsafe practice without mentioning it. It is inadvisable to use a claw hammer as a striking tool with center punches, because of the hardened hammer face. A ball peen hammer is the recommended tool for this application.
You could easily use Simple Green (50/50 mix with water) to sand on the cast iron. Believe it or not but the Simple Green keeps it from rusting and I know of people who use it for tool sharpening and as a lubricant for drilling for just that reason. It would be less toxic and still pull out all the old grease and dirt just as well.
Thanks for the safety tip. Good luck restoring your unisaw. I might be buying a 1949 10" tilting arbor saw. Really small model, 34-160. I also took delivery of a 1986 Delta 10" contractor saw, 34-410, with 2 wings.
Interesting series, I recently bought a circa 1951 unisaw at a scrap yard. It has a heavy rolling base. I applaud your mention of safety practices such as eye protection. However, you demonstrated an unsafe practice without mentioning it. It is inadvisable to use a claw hammer as a striking tool with center punches, because of the hardened hammer face. A ball peen hammer is the recommended tool for this application.
would it be ok to use a random orbit sander on a low setting to clean it up or is it better to use a sanding block?
You could easily use Simple Green (50/50 mix with water) to sand on the cast iron. Believe it or not but the Simple Green keeps it from rusting and I know of people who use it for tool sharpening and as a lubricant for drilling for just that reason. It would be less toxic and still pull out all the old grease and dirt just as well.
There are many different ways to REMOVE RUST FROM CAST IRON PARTS 👷 you can also use Naval Jelly & 6 ott (000000) steel wool
@ 5:37 Nooooo! : (
You cut a hole in a 65 year old saw. You could have made a new base that did the same thing without CUTTING A HOLE IN IT.