Aviation Sheetmetal Work

Brian Whatcott wrote:
Dan wrote:
...

One of the advantages in living alone in a house is one of my
bedrooms is my machine shop. It's more comfortable than a garage and
cheaper than a climate controlled shop.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired


But who cooks breakfast? Oh, yes. I do! :-)
(Unfair to my beloved - she cooks and washes up after me without cease.)

B

I'm a hermit by choice. The truly amazing thing is I have survived my
own cooking. My meals are almost as good as C rats or LRRP rats.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Copperhead wrote:
On Feb 16, 6:07 pm, Anthony W wrote:
Brian Whatcott wrote:


Brian W

Try a 50/50 mix of automatic transmission fluid and kerosene. You
will
be amazed how well it both lubes and protects against rust.

Tony

If anything is siezed the auto trans fluid will free it up quick. In
addition to removing paing it also likes to clean up rust.

Joe S.

But explosives are much more satisfying for un-seizing. All
seriousness aside, in my gun smithing days I had a Krag come in with
it's bolt rusted shut. Transmission fluid released it. I have no idea
how long it actually took since I soaked it over night.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Copperhead wrote:

Try a 50/50 mix of automatic transmission fluid and kerosene. You
will be amazed how well it both lubes and protects against rust.

Tony

If anything is siezed the auto trans fluid will free it up quick. In
addition to removing paint it also likes to clean up rust.

Joe S.

Well - something else I hadn't heard before!

Thanks
B

"Anthony W" wrote

The 50/50 kerosene and ATF is an old formula for a gun oil and short term
preservative. I didn't even think about it being bad for paint but it has
worked great on my rifles for many years.

Yep, but on guns, there is linseed oil or varnished stocks, and gun blue,
or polished metals, with no paint.

It would be possible to kero down most machines, and stay away from what
little paint is on most of them. A rag soaked in it, or a sponge would be
as quick, and cover 98%, with a squirt here and there where rags will not
reach.
--
Jim in NC

"Morgans" wrote in message
...

"Anthony W" wrote

The 50/50 kerosene and ATF is an old formula for a gun oil and short term
preservative. I didn't even think about it being bad for paint but it
has worked great on my rifles for many years.

Yep, but on guns, there is linseed oil or varnished stocks, and gun blue,
or polished metals, with no paint.

It would be possible to kero down most machines, and stay away from what
little paint is on most of them. A rag soaked in it, or a sponge would be
as quick, and cover 98%, with a squirt here and there where rags will not
reach.
--
Jim in NC





The shop I once worked in had, for nearly sixty years, ordered a
Friday-afternoon last shift ritual where the chips were all shoveled out,
and every machine was entirely sprayed down with kerosene. That was a
routine that was only halted when the accumulated fine dust on the roof
trusses and rafters was finally so slopped with kerosene and it all caught
fire and took the roof right off the shop. That also was the end of all the
overhead shafting that had remained unused for twenty-five years, the lights
and most of the machine power wiring.

Oh yeah, the shop was shut down for ten days.

The local Firefighting And Barbecue Society was impressed.
(Their motto at the time was "If we don't light 'em, we don't fight 'em")

Flash

The shop I once worked in had, for nearly sixty years, ordered a
Friday-afternoon last shift ritual where the chips were all shoveled out,
and every machine was entirely sprayed down with kerosene. That was a
routine that was only halted when the accumulated fine dust on the roof
trusses and rafters was finally so slopped with kerosene and it all caught
fire and took the roof right off the shop. That also was the end of all the
overhead shafting that had remained unused for twenty-five years, the lights
and most of the machine power wiring.

Oh yeah, the shop was shut down for ten days.

The local Firefighting And Barbecue Society was impressed.
(Their motto at the time was "If we don't light 'em, we don't fight 'em")

Flash



Appropriate Sig, there....

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:35:56 -0800 (PST), "
wrote:


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I would not dream of putting a
machine lathe in an unheated workshop where the ways might attract a
layer of rust.
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So buy a Flit gun and 5 gallons of kerosene. After using the lathe,
pump up the Flit gun and give the lathe a light coating of kerosene,
then cover it with a piece of canvas that is NOT allowed to touch any
unpainted surface.

-Bob

PS -- Can't find a Flit gun? Then use one of those refillable aerosol
cans... or use an air-brush.

my lathe sits in an unheated workshop. when the workshop was an
asbestos cement shed I had moisture problems.
now I have a colourbond tin workshop, still unheated, and all I use is
shell tellus 46 on the slideways and a thick plastic sheet draped over
it. the plastic being impervious to moisture unlike the canvas.

the poms who have your snow merely put a cover over the lathe and sit
the smallest light globe they can find down in the ways. probably
about 15 watts. the heat from that keeps the lathe and the air around
it just above ambient temperature and prevents condensation.

if you are really desperate spray a lathe under plastic with CRC or
WD40 and it should be ok.

stealth pilot