Oops I Broke It

[iron1951]

Constabulary, nice looking 51W. Like the wrinkle paint. Your 108W20 was also done in wrinkle paint. Have you done any restorations in another paint? I would like to see some pics before I choose a paint. Thanks

Wizcrafts, what do you mean by standard resolution? I use a photo editor. I can create a new image, width, height in pixels and resolution in dpi. Would standard resolution be 96 dpi? My photo editor allows resolution range 72 to 600 dpi. What would you recommend? Thanks

[dikman]

I use irfanview (free) to resize to 800x600, you don't want it too small 'cos we voyeurs like to see some detail.

Your photos look fine to me.

[Constabulary]

6 hours ago, iron1951 said:

Constabulary, nice looking 51W. Like the wrinkle paint. Your 108W20 was also done in wrinkle paint. Have you done any restorations in another paint? I would like to see some pics before I choose a paint. Thanks

silver hammer tone

https://leatherworker.net/forum/topic/72789-singer-45d91-restoration/

Edited March 18, 2020 by Constabulary

[Wizcrafts]

9 hours ago, iron1951 said:

I can create a new image, width, height in pixels and resolution in dpi. Would standard resolution be 96 dpi? My photo editor allows resolution range 72 to 600 dpi. What would you recommend?

96 dpi is fine for forum use. It will reduce the file size to stay within the forum's upload limit.

I don't know about InfranView, but Corel's Paintshop Pro has additional "Chroma Subsampling" optimizations for reducing the filesize with minimal loss of clarity. As an example, I loaded a 1648x1004 px jpg into PSP and began optimizing before re-saving it. Using 15% quality reduction, along with Chroma Subsampling of YCbCr = 4x2 1x1 1x1, the original file gets reduced from 4.34 mb to 346 kb - with barely noticeable artifacts in a few dark areas !!! The DPI on this image is 300.

[Handstitched]

@iron1951 You are much braver than me to pull the whole thing apart .  No doubt you have good knowledge of machines to do that. 

But can't wait to see the finished product though . Good luck   

HS

P.S. Can't help but notice your " secret stash"  of toilet paper in the last pic.   

[iron1951]

Constabulary, your restorations are works of art. Do you use textured finishes to help hide the pits in the castings? Do you prime and sand before you paint? Did you use a buffing wheel and a buffing compound to shine up the metal? This is my first total restoration. I hope you don't mind the questions.

Wizcrafts thanks for the help with the pics.

Handstitched, I take lots of pics during disassembly to help with assembly.

[Constabulary]

Well the textured paint (VHT wrinkle) just looks cool I think and yes it covers pits and chips very well just like the silver hammer tone paint. The silver hammer tone silver always looks "fresh" I´d say. I really like both! On the 108w20 I only have touched up some on the larger paint chips the rest is still the original paint. I have not primed the machines I just clean them with pain thinner and sand them with 240 grid before painting. I do not buff the parts (I do not have a buffing wheel). What looks like rust often is just dried oil and dust. Often a hot washing soda solution can wash down this gunk. The really hard necking stuff on certain parts I remove with a round wire brush for electric drills. I`m also using electrolysis for removing paint and dirt sometimes.

Edited March 20, 2020 by Constabulary

[iron1951]

Lot of good information here. Thanks

[iron1951]

Here are some pictures of the paint. Next time I have to be a bit more careful as I have paint "shadows" in a few places where there were plugs.

[iron1951]

Of course, I had to have an accident when placing the machine into a table. I did not notice that the bed was shorter than my other machine and the 21w30 fell breaking Take-up Lever. Part number 203270 (or 203271 complete). Anyone have an idea where I could chase this part down? Thanks