Cleaning the Disassembled Emco Unimat SL Lathe

The Emco Unimat SL is a small hobby engineer's lathe first made available in the 1950s. It features bed rails made from parallel round bars, a simple flexible design, and a huge range of accessories and add-ons which make it astonishingly versatile.

I'm between workshops for a few months, and I picked this lathe up second hand as a project I can work on with minimal space and equipment. In this video I spend some time cleaning the lathe parts to make sure it will work as perfectly as possible when it all goes back together.

Many thanks to Paul at The Knackler's Workshop for his series on a similar lathe. He really helped me know what I was getting myself into, and where to start. If you're impatient to find out more, go and watch his series while you wait for more videos from me.

The Knackler's Workshop:
   / theknacklersworkshop  

Paul's Unimat SL Playlist:
   • Emco Unimat SL - Restoration - Page 1...  

Also check out smallathe, an entire channel focused on making things with the Unimat SL.

smallathe:
   / @smallathe  

00:00 Introduction
00:14 The Ultrasonic Cleaner
02:17 Brushing Down the Saddle
03:00 Problems with the Fixed Toolpost
03:30 Cleaning the Small Parts
06:22 Paintwork Damage Problems
07:06 Drying the Small Parts
08:25 Paint Stripping
09:25 Cleaning the Saddle
11:38 Cleaning the Bed Casting
14:28 Cleaning the Bed Rails
16:00 Cleaning the Z-axis Leadscrew
17:01 Cleaning the Headstock Casting
19:51 Cleaning the Headstock Pinion
20:27 Cleaning the Milling/Drilling Stand
21:50 Cleaning the Column
23:16 Next Steps and Outro

Edited with:
Davinci Resolve 7.4.6
Audacity 3.1.3

Music:
Easy Lemon by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
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