Hi Goofie,
Great article!!
I liked your article on your oil and greasing and the pics which goes along with it. I'm in the tool and die industry and do enough heat treating myself. As far as your "baking them a little " can you please be a little more spacific on temps & time durations.
Thanks, hope it helps many at keeping rust minimal. I can't recall what the exact temp was now, I just read the instructions on the paint. I think it was something like 250 f for 2 hours, i actually went a little less then what was on the can, was a little afraid of degrading the metal, probably no chance of that, but I was playing safe. I used Dupli Color engine enamel. It is designed for high heat applications and really bakes on good. I was actually wanting to use VHT engine paint, but some how ended up buying the wrong one. I had both in my hands reading them and must have put down the wrong one. Did not notice it until I got home and thought oh well, give this stuff a go. I really didn't need to bake it, I did so as it wasn't that great of a day for drying paint, wanted to speed it up. It ended up really nice though.
Snipe, It wouldn't take that long to grease up the machine in most places. I just went a little further. As for the painting and stuff, probably wouldn't need it in most places if I greased the machine on day 1. I live in Mt pearl :) The weather is awesome aside from all the rain. If the temp was any lower my machine would be having a blast for the last few weeks. Think its holding off for my snow cab to arrive.. haha
Paul, The welds on my machine that are painted orange show no signs of rust. But the auger on the other hand, is rusting slightly at the welds. I took care of that with the same paint I used for the pulleys. Primed and painted.
Cheers
Goofie Newfie
