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Today's restoration is an old rusty 1902 eyelet press, manufactured by a company called E.L. Sibley out of Bennington, Vermont. I found this surprisingly heavy rust covered cast iron beauty on the interwebs and just knew I had to restore it! I started as per usual with the disassembly, which went quite swimmingly up until I had to remove a VERY stubborn pin that refused to cooperate to say the least! After figuring out how to remove that I moved on to the paint stripping. I hated to remove the original antique hand-painted styling on the sides, but it had to go. :(
After that I went ahead and threw it into the rust remover and left it to work its magic. Then I quickly (well, actually it wasn't very quick at all) hit up all of the pieces with an abrasive buff, followed by the wire wheel on my bench grinder, which got them nice and shiny. After that came the sanding portion. I started by sanding down rough areas and then I applied a large quantity of body filler. Way too much body filler... So, long story short, I sanded the filler down over five or so hours. After that I prepped the parts for paint and gave them a couple coats of primer followed by base coat and finished off with a gloss clear coat.
Next I went on to work on the small parts. I started by bluing a couple of the components. I used a cold bluing solution, though I would like to start heat bluing in the future since it offers a bit more rust protection. After those were finished I moved onto electroplating. I ended up nickel plating all the rest of the small parts. I had noticed that two of the screws had been originally coper plated, so after nickel plating I went ahead and copper plated them. Now, with everything ready, I went ahead and reassembled everything.
Next up I decided I had better give it a test! I did record another eyelet press restoration in the past: The Bates Automatic Eyeleter. I decided to finally test the Bates eyeleter out on camera and show how it works. I also went ahead and fixed up a few loose ends, such as the recessed text which I did not repaint originally. All in all it may not have ended up as a perfect restoration, however, I was relatively happy with the end results. Though I would have liked to have been able to reapply the original decal. Restoring old things like this is always fun - I hope you enjoy the video as much as I enjoyed restoring this vintage little eyelet press!
Time Stamps:
0:00 Welcome!
0:20 Disassembly Time
3:36 Paint Stripping
4:00 Rust Removal Stuff
4:19 A Quick Clean
4:52 Wire Wheeling
5:34 Replacing the Pesky Pin
7:10 Many Hours of Sanding in Less Than One Minute
8:05 It's Painting Time
9:18 Tending to the Small Parts
9:50 Cold Bluing Parts
10:34 Electroplating Parts
11:32 Reassembly Time
14:54 Time for a Test
15:34 Testing the "Bates Automatic Eyeleter"
16:54 Before and After
17:34 Thanks for Watching!
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