AMAZING DETAIL Vintage Eagle Oil Can - Beyond a Perfect Restoration
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2019
- I had been looking for an inexpensive vintage oil can for some time to use for my antique Bertram Metal lathe. I found this old can in a bag filled with rusty tools and sawdust at the local antique shop and with a price of $5 I was happy to take it home and see what I could do with it.
In this video I do a complete restoration and then take it way beyond by experimenting with etching, electroplating using Copper and Nickel and painting.
I use a new camera to shoot this video, it is the Canon EOS M50 Mirror-less with the kit lens and a 36 yr old adapted manual focus lens.
There were a surprising 244 separate videos taken to create this detailed video of the restoration, please let me know what you think in the comments, I'd be happy to hear them.
Timestamps:
Overview 0:01
Testing 0:20
Cleaning 0:54
Stripping 2:10
Wet Sand 3:35
First Etch 5:06
Copper Plating Test 6:27
Nickel Plating Test 7:37
Copper Plating over Nickel 8:32
Re-etch 9:35
Final Plating 11:11
Making Gasket 11:57
Emblem 14:09
Testing 17:31
Into the Lathe 17:40
Thanks and Subscribe 17:49
AMAZING RESULT 18:00
A special thanks to my family for providing the equipment for a much better video and sound quality.
#restoration
#vintage
#old
If you watched the video, you can see that I struggled with the copper plating. My best understanding of this is that iron within the steel is highly attractive to copper. Because of this, the copper will coat the material quickly without adding a current, when a current i applied, the copper has already coated the steel and prevents bonding of the dis-similar metals.
On the other side, nickel is not attracted by iron in this way, so it works as a good intermediate metal. I did not want to use the copper as the finial finish, so I was able to skip the copper plating on the oil can.
I used Tremclad paint here only because that's what I had on-hand. The Tremclad also remains flexible unlike some lacquer based paints. This area has to be flexible since it will be deformed on a regular basis.
Excellent job looks fantastic thanks for sharing your time and skill and#remember stay safe and make thanks. 🍺🍺👍👍
Hey, thanks a lot. I really like this oil can for my old lathe, nice and small to keep in the tool tray.
Old oilers are great! Awesome job... ready for 30 more years of service. See if you can find an old "golden rod" oiler!
I just had a look, some of them look very unique, thanks for the idea and the comment.
Very nice. I recently picked up an old knackered rusty ome of these. You've given me the encouragement I needed to get out to the workshop and restore it.
Thank you! Anytime I am setting up to work on the old metal lathe, I like to use this oil can, it still looks and works great, The nickel plating wasn't necessary, I do really like the vintage look the nickel creates. Good luck!
I'm a new subscriber. Keep the great job. Greetings from Argentina!
Awesome, thank you very much for your support. Do you have anything in particular you really enjoyed or didn't enjoy in the video?
Really nice finish, I particularly liked your decal detailing on the base, you've earned another sub. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work.
Thank you very much, I use this oil can all of the time now with the old lathe, works great, and the paint job seems to be lasting.
Very nice. 👍👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🦘🦘
Beautifully done! You sir have real talent and skills not to mention patience. Great video! Keep the videos coming!
Thank you very much for your comment. This video took me the longest of any so far, but the results I think are much better. Look for even better videos in future and if you have interesting video ideas, let me know.
I really appreciate and enjoy all your videos! For me... I’m a vintage vise and vintage grinder enthusiast and have too many to count so I gravitate to the those videos . I know everyone on RUclips has restored a vise but I think that bringing your skills and attention to detail to a vise restoration could put many to shame. But that’s just a selfish, self serving desire! Lol
Well without spoiling anything, I think a future video that I'm working on should satisfy your desires. Like most of my videos, whatever the video is, it should have some unique solutions and since I have a nice camera, I'll be including some extreme detail and a lot of variety of interesting shots. I'll have to ask for your patience, these videos do take quite a bit of time and care to make.
Thanks for all of your support.
This is such an underrated RUclips channel
Thanks, I really appreciate it, making quality videos is tough, hopefully they catch on.
Keep up the good work dude
I will.
Incredibly detailed restoration. Very impressive.
Thanks, I liked the idea of creating some very close up detailed shots using the awesome new camera
Restoration is to get the same original condition. It is not a restoration.
@@pabloperez5678 Literally no restoration that has ever been performed has restored an object to the same original condition. You can restore it to the same level of quality, but it will never be the same as the original. Going by your reasoning, nothing can ever be restored.
Hi bro 👋👋👋very good restoration 👍👍👍👍
Thanks a lot for the claps and thumbs up. I'm glad there are people like you who stop for a moment to leave some feedback
Great restoration! What’s that tool you used to make the gasket?
Thanks a lot!, The tool I used as the mould was a piece I 3D printed from ABS. I didn't expect the RTV to stick to it so well, I should have used a lubricant on it first.
It is not a restoration. That oiler can was perfect shape. You lost a lot of time and means. It is a modification.
You don't need make a seal like that!!! You can search an o ring
Yes it is. Just because it's also MORE than a simple restoration, doesn't mean that it isn't also a restoration. And him making the seal himself was obviously the point, rather than just searching and buying it from elsewhere. I'd like you to point out a restoration that is 100% accurate to the original shape of the object. Go on... I'll wait. If you even remove the slightest amount of the object through the cleaning process alone, which even steel wool will do (and the can needed it), then technically speaking you're not restoring it to it's original shape, but that doesn't matter because a restoration isn't about being 100% the same as the original, because that's impossible. A restoration is about bringing the quality of the object back. It's that simple.