Working on A Windy Hill Casting and Restoring a Cincinnati Shaper 

Don is one very talented dude.......his skills at rebuilding these old machines is second to none.

Great to see these old machines that helped make America's industry come back to life.

Don’s a treasure. The amount of work he has done on his shop expansions would be a totally consuming hobby for most. But they just house his machine tool refurbishing hobby. Wow!

The shaper is looking fantastic Don!

Good to see Don is doing well, and it's nice to see the shaper put back together! 👍👍

Every video that you put out that has the Axelsons in really makes me miss mine. Nice progress on the shop Don.

If I live long enough I just might get my shop as clean as Don.

Thanks for the vid, looks like it’s time for Dons yearly visit to the barbershop, got to love them old machines , much more entertaining than the cnc things.

Love watching videos at Dons shop, he’s like me, it has to be clean and look good before it can work good! LOL Beautiful shop Don- 👍👍👍nice job.

LOL I have to go to Windy Hill to pound sand. Great one Steve. An entertaining video with dueling old guys doing shop smack talk. It will be great to see the final product of the project. Thanks for sharing Steve!

Wish Don would get done cleaning and painting his machines so he can come do mine. LOL

I have to go to Windy Hill to pound sand. LOL great come back. An entertaining video Steve. It will be good to see the cleaned up bed clamps for Don's lathe. Thanks for sharing.

I feel like we need to of seen some of Don'd artistic grinding in action too. Thanks for the update Steve

Good seeing you again Don, you have just about a perfect shop, plenty of room with every machine a well equipped machining shop needs. You buy tools really well, you look for good deals and bargain for them. You don’t buy a bunch of stuff just because it’s sitting there and fill your shop with so many machines that you can’t even get to them when you need to use one. You have most of your machines looking really good, probably because you aren’t overwhelmed with too much and you have the room to actually work on them. From what I can tell you only have two or three that need cleaned and repainted, I won’t say which ones, you already brought them up. Lol I’d like to see you use them sometime!

You guys remind me of an episode of the Odd Couple. But I learn a lot from both of you.

Don did a great job on the shaper

I use Permatex rust treatment on cast iron and it puts on a nice black coating. Give it a try I haven't even had to paint it after.

Absolutely amazing stuff.....

That's some TLC, it's hard to believe that is the same shaper that was delivered.

Steve, you need to use manganese phosphate solution for blackening cast iron. Gun blue is not the right stuff to use. After coating, apply Starrett M-1, not the Bullsh^t crap you mentioned. Ken Edit: Birchwood Casey sells the solution if you want to buy a 5-gallon bucket of the solution. Castwell may sell it in smaller containers. Yeah, you have to heat the parts/solution to around 125-150°F for decent results.

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see you later Don . take care

In my experience cast iron won't take a blue. A gunsmith friend wanted to blue some cast and said it finally was blue after a year in the bath, he ran bluing a couple times a week.

Please, tell me more about the sandblaster name volts working air pressure? I think I am impressed 73 dan

Steve,I was just thinking recently how is ole Don and did he get the shaper done.AL B.

Two Old Fartistes Machine Rebuilding & Grinding

The Planner looks great ! Looking forward to its operation soon. Love that "sanding box", keep up the good work.Thanks!