Thread Number: 2623
A Cavalcade of WO-65-2 Unimatics |
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Post# 73223   7/11/2005 at 22:29 (6,835 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Well I promised myself that I would get my storage unit cleaned out this summer, and you can’t get more summer than mid July so I decided to tackle the two 1952 Unimatics that I got in Tulsa last year. One is in really bad shape, the other is in relatively good shape except its mechanism is shot. So I'll take two machines and make one really good one. Tonight I brought home the one that's in really bad shape... |
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Post# 73224 , Reply# 1   7/11/2005 at 22:30 (6,835 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Post# 73225 , Reply# 2   7/11/2005 at 22:31 (6,835 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Post# 73226 , Reply# 3   7/11/2005 at 22:31 (6,835 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Post# 73227 , Reply# 4   7/11/2005 at 22:32 (6,835 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Post# 73228 , Reply# 5   7/11/2005 at 22:32 (6,835 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Post# 73229 , Reply# 6   7/11/2005 at 22:33 (6,835 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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All in all the mechanism doesn’t look that bad, I drained the oil and its perfectly clear of any sign of water or rust, so this means I can probably reuse this mechanism. That’s good because what till you see what happened to the mechanism in the other machine, I’ve never seen anything like it before. More to come when I bring in the other WO-65-2.
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Post# 73232 , Reply# 7   7/11/2005 at 22:42 (6,835 days old) by rickr (.)   |   | |
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Post# 73235 , Reply# 9   7/11/2005 at 22:59 (6,835 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Austin if you look at the crossbrace on this machine you can see that it is very rusted, I'm sure that this machine sat outside in the grass or dirt somewhere in Oklahoma for at least a few years. As for the other machines mechanism, if it only had suffered a "catastrophic oil leak" it would be in good shape, what happened to this poor dear is even worse! |
Post# 73249 , Reply# 10   7/12/2005 at 00:39 (6,835 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 73257 , Reply# 11   7/12/2005 at 02:49 (6,835 days old) by bostonwash ()   |   | |
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The suspense continues... I have to admire your patience. |
Post# 73274 , Reply# 13   7/12/2005 at 08:52 (6,834 days old) by veg-o-matic (Baltimore, Hon!)   |   | |
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Post# 73281 , Reply# 14   7/12/2005 at 09:41 (6,834 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Hi Brent, one of the nicest things about working on a Unimatic is the mechanism can be taken out and worked on and tested on your workbench. Good thing the mechanism from this "bad machine" looks and feels pretty good, because the mechanism in the “good machine”, shall we say, needs major work. More to come on that. Veg, first off all that Frigidaire is white, it looks white on both my monitor at work and at home? Strange that it looks pink on your monitor. As for the vintage TV that’s my blonde ’53 Sparton on my workbench, it has a few little minor bugs left in it that I’m slowly but surely troubleshooting but decided to take a “washer break”. I can’t stand putting the chassis back into the tv cabinet until every last bug is worked out, that’s also part of the “sickness” that Greg was referring to. |