Well been a bit since ive posted been a bit busy lately. Here are a few updates.
Well in ref to the above vinegar worked great but gotta act fast to avoid flash rust.. i was in a hurry and having to do bits and pieces when I could some of which on my lunch break so i flash rusted, for the sake of time i got some evaporust since it would eat the rust quick and coat the surface for at least a week or two till i was able to get the ducks in a row.
Here's the tank as I got it off of one of the forums
Vinegar
After the vinegar
Flash rust.. bummer
evaporust
And post evaporust been like 5 days still clean as a whistle.
Also picked this up
GE 1/2 HP motor
Got this press for free a year or two back
And some hacktastic magic later motor is actually bolted to it , the brazing is a plate i welded on and drilled then bolted the motor to, base metal of the press is awful pot metal tried to mig it and to torch weld it with steel rod brazing was the only thing playing nice, walloped it with a mini sledge though and its solid - works like a champ too, just need to wire up the 3 prong cord into a main switch and an emergency cut off switch.
And.. (long random post its been hectic so they are kinda compounded on each other)
Got these in .
And round about where they will sit. Taking my template to the shop tomorrow to have it CNC'd from aluminum, still need to work out what to do with the gear change lever .. so nice of the factory to jam those two up on each other like a couple of drunk highschool kids...
And finally to round it out a bit, a current (ish) mock up