Save Old Lathe Feed Collars With Cheap Items

Lets renew a old lathe feed collars

I have a old lathe a Joinville 117r model made in brazil in 1975 that lathe are inspired on south bend lathe small models. A very acurate fine lathe. But the colars feed are worn out, thats bad, because without any control on feed you cant do a precise work... thats why we need to solve this!

you going to need:

1 - a sharp knife or sharp metal

2 - a small wire brush

3 - ink corrector or white ink

4 - clear nail polish or a lacquer

First thing first, we need to clean with a sharp blade the marks of the collars, really scribing the marks deep and cleaning and taking of the rust and old paint, than clean with a wire brush with a lateral swipe for only one side to really remove the particules of dust and rust, do this until you get deep lines.

Im using a corretor ink, just because is cheap and readily avaliable for everyone, but you can use white paint to or even other colors. I did several coats until the ink go on to the deep of the lines

Let the ink or the corrector set for while, thats very fast on the corrector ink, and just rub your finger or a piece of fabric to clean, i did both than use a piece of cloth to take the excess of ink and clean the collar

To finish just add a lacquer or in my case a clear nail polish to seal that ink and finish the project, now just let it cure for some hours! and you get a renew feed collar!