Finish on Kodak Mk1 32 Scope

[waco16]

Scope No 7023
KL
1941

[Roger Payne]

Waco with all that kit & the ability to get the best out of it you ought to start gearing up to produce No32 spares! I'm led to believe there may be a market for lead screws, clicker plates, grat blocks etc........

[snipershot1944]

Thanks but wrong needle. I'm looking for 1766 & 3193.

[Beerhunter]

It's true about engineers..... No matter what you do or where you go, it just gets into your blood a bit.....

The trouble is that others just don't see it. For example, 'er indoors doesn't understand why I need an oscilloscope or an ultrasonic bath. (Both "rescue" tools.)

[bigduke6]

Well..........

The stable mate to the Tom Senior Milling machine is an equally as versatile '50s Raglan Little John (British Built!!) Screw cutting Centre lathe, perfectly capable of cutting a 2 start thread

Is it the junior or senior model ? going by the pic looks like you have the milling head attachment, is this original or an after fit ? only ask as I,ve got the machine and been looking for the milling head and slotting tool for some time but the prices are a bit eye watering I nearly purchased another machine so I could get milling head but it was one of them " The buyer must move machine by tomorrow etc", have a heath robinson set up at present, but involves running 2 motors, the last one i seen they wanted over £600.

Forgot to say certainly looks like you spent some hours on the restoration and a nice job, I was lucky with mine as it was in good nick, slight mishap when I had to break suddenly and I heard a crash in the back of the van..... just the belt casing a bit err...... damaged.

[waco16]

My machine is an M1, and I was very lucky in that it came with a slotting head, horizontal arbor and over arm support and an 8" rotary table (all in various states of ' bu**ered, but all repairable).

The quill head that you see in the picture was a later addition that I wasn't so lucky with regarding the price I paid, but it has been worth its weight since I've had it

[Surpmil]

Yes, the crinkle finish is not uncommon. IIRC the only Mk1's I've noticed it on have been KL's.

My observation also.

I was at the powdercoaters the other day and noticed a black finish that very closely matched the old crinkle finish paints.

KL was also the only maker to do the lead(?) infill on the drum markings, which originally showed through the paint of course. One wonders why they bothered/were allowed to, since white infill is much easier to see in low light and all the other makers were using it.

Beautiful mill and restoration...

[Peter Laidler]

I have rebuilt these Kodak drums by getting the drum to over solder melting point and brushing the infilled solder out. Where it is too shallow to mark with quik-fil, then just over engrave and be done with it. Someone from the Kodak Camera factory told me how/why they did it some years ago. It was a carry-over from their camera making days (He also told me that KL wasn't a variation of Kershaw but Kodak from Welwyn) where it was a method of marking the thin sheet brass/steel camera bodies where they couldn't engrave deep.

It's correct too..... Have a look when you see an old pre or just post war Kodak camera