1940 Monarch 16W Lathe Restoration Part 1 of 5: Disassembly & Cleaning

Here we go - bringing an old lathe back to top form.

There will be 5 parts to this. If you watch them all you rock! This video took a lot of work and condenses at least 100 hours of effort into 50 minutes. It will be the longest video in this series.

At upload, the lathe is fully restored. I have edited rough drafts and will try to publish one each week.

[dillonwhitson]

I have spent many hours with a 1941 Monarch, thanks

[billgilbride]

I really like how you tell fate to GTH, welding in front of the paint remover can as the sparks fly in all directions!

[MegaRiffraff]

My monarch is a cw 16x78, January 1941, It was also originally green with yellow handles, but someone painted it battle ship gray before it went into storage, he must have used a battle ship paint roller, because he painted everything but the ways,

[hansmuller]

Hello, you've done a great job so far. If I were you, even if the sled still looks good, I would dismantle it to see what it looks like from below and then you also have space to open the bed, which looks like it's pretty much down. I know it is a very strenuous job to get the machine bed back together, especially scraping the surfaces is not easy. Many years ago I worked on the complete overhaul of 3 lathes (2 of them from the 1950s) and I know that it takes a lot of time. When it comes to the paint, I can say that the 2 old machines also had red rounding and dark green paint, the 3rd machine was painted gray on gray. We also had major gear damage and had to remake several gears.
I wish you a lot of fun and a merry Christmas. Greetings from Berlin

[kinvotime]

If you have good paint adhesion there is no need to use paint stripper. You can sand the edges of the chips, feather them out, prime and sand to smooth, and then paint. Typically all paint stripper does is make your job 10x harder, not better.

[piteralvarado]

Buen trabajo smigo me gusta mucho ver estos videos ya que tengo tiempo trabajando en torno y mu sueño es tener un torno asi sea viejo y yo arreglarlo por mi cuenta y dejarlo como nuevo gran video y asi voy aprendiendo 🙏👍🇻🇪👏👏

[memememe]

You need to use the mist setting on the spray bottle. You ard using jet so it's not atomising like tgd can