{"id":606,"date":"2022-05-26T21:12:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T01:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/?p=606"},"modified":"2022-05-26T21:13:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T01:13:03","slug":"book-press-restoration-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"Book Press Restoration #2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is my second one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve finished restoring this old book press. When I picked it up at an auction it was rusted and seized up like a brick. When I removed all of the rust a couple pieces were broken. Looked like a challenge!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I taught myself to TIG weld and fixed the broken hand wheel and remade the broken flange that bolts onto the upper flat press using a pipe flange welded to a large bolt. Then bought a metal lathe to turn it into the same shape as the original.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bondo and paint to make it pretty. Most of the threaded things had to be re-threaded and tapped. I learned what ACME thread was and Witworth British thread is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book press took many hours and new tools for the learning experience.
For sale for one million dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is my second one. I\u2019ve finished restoring this old book press. When I picked it up at an auction it was rusted and seized up like a brick. When I removed all of the rust a couple pieces were … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,22,23,25],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-antique","tag-book-press","tag-bookpress","tag-restore"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75YqE-9M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}