Beginner look for help

[jeffmoss26]

That is a very nice Yale push key padlock! Looking forward to seeing it all cleaned up.

[ckielcave]

So today put about 45min of work on it with the ultra sound tool..

Finish is about 1000 so far.. At first i wanted a Mirror finish.. not that i cant do it .. but removed about .020 all around.. the rust made good pitting.. so i decide to stop at that point and just go for a nice finish.

You can see i dint work the bottom part of the hook and the interior.. dint wanna play to much with tolerance ..

I got trough a other hard decision .. the YALE logo.. finally decided to leave it original (i did easy sandblast on it to remove the brown to a nicer silver look)

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[Squelchtone]

Wow, that's coming along very nicely. I especially like that it says Made in Canada.

You know what would look really nice? get some Testors hobby paint and fill in the background of YALE in red and make the letters gloss white, and then that square frame around the logo, fill that in with red or white. Just to go with the Made in Canada theme.


EDIT: like this: (just an idea, I'm not yet sure if it is a good one! =)


Squelchtone

[ckielcave]

i took more picture..

ye can see some scratch here and there.. a other problem of polish metal

i might light sand blast the bottom part i dont know.. ???

what you think ???

[cheerIO]

That looks Awesome!!!!

[ckielcave]

im not that much of a canada guy ... im more a Quebec one

it could be a good call the paint for a next project if i fall on a other one like this ...

[Squelchtone]

oh that's nice, forget the paint, the metal looks nice! =)

[Squelchtone]

im not that much of a canada guy ... im more a Quebec one

it could be a good call the paint for a next project if i fall on a other one like this ...

OK OK.. Quebec guy...



Je me souviens

[ckielcave]

hahaha love it.. i could stamp this : I remember

[Squelchtone]

Is there anything on the other side of the padlock body? I see some of these padlocks were made in St. Catharines (near Niagara Falls) Ontario for the railroad.

http://www.antique-padlocks.com/rr_cn-cz.htm

[ckielcave]

one side is made in canada
the other is Yale & Towne MFG.CO.

nothing else

[ckielcave]

the feeling in the hand.. love it

[Tighran]

That's really nice! It's neat to be able to see what it might have looked like brand new. That being said, I wouldn't do this on a valuable or collector's piece... it would destroy the resale value of it (doing this to vintage watches is a no-no). However for something you have lying around it seems like a neat project and really gives it a nice look!
How difficult is it to do something like this? Is it something most people could do with a little time and effort, or would you have to take it to a specialist to do it?

Also... Polish your picks! It only takes a few minutes and actually improves the feeling you get from a pick. Plus it looks nice and it seems like something you would be familiar with! The easy way is with some sandpaper and a junky book or something similar, but maybe you have some better stuff to do it with! https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... 8K64#t=274

[ckielcave]

I understand your point of view.. for the price i got it for.. it worth the pleasure to bring it back to is first days of life..
This say.. i plan to buy a other one like this .. but to keep it AS IS ..

Metal polishing is a art of patience !
It took me less than a hour with some electronic tool air tool and ultra sound tool ...

Doing it by hand would be doable but loooooooooong !
Ill take some picture of the tool i took to get to this finish..

Also have to remember how rust pitting the lock was .. remove .020 by hand.. the hard part is to keep surface as straight possible.. by hand its not that easy to loose the shape the straightness and the flatness ..

To be honest.. if my boss see that lock .. he wont be impress lol.. there is still many porosity in the material .. normaly i would laser weld all these to .005 up ..

The brass part of this lock also been beaten and to bring the shape back would take way to many material away ..

Than for a mirror finish.. you need a really good finish surface .. if not all the material default will come out.. remember a mirror finish will get scratch just with the finger grease !!!

Here is a nice Polish Face we done at work for a Open Door.. took about 100hrs of polishing time ( thats without machining time )

For polishing the pick .. i say this is a really easy and cheap quick way to achieve the work..
I will do it with a polishing paste and a rotary tool equip with a q-tip like insert ..

(sorry all if my english not always easy to fallow LOL)

[ckielcave]

So this one was a not cool challenge LOL

Put the pin back in the bible.. not much room.. cant see at all.. with some long nose pliers...

Finally got it assemble back and working ! ! !