Practiced more soldering and so on today on the Wunderlich Shoe Shine Man.
First photo is from 'Symphony in Motion', think that my bloke was a different model; well is now anyhow....
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Next is removing some old scale so that the solder will take.
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Then his new bench before Ballistol.
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Then after a spray with Ballistol
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Nice work Walter.
A tricky job.
I'm glad you didn't use the wire brush during restoration.😂
Very nice work and a good example of Ballistol working wonders when treating old paint. Thanks for the post.
If you are referring to the wire brush in the second photo Jürgen, I might inform you that this wire brush is is my ‘patented’ soldering iron support to rest my soldering iron upon when it is heated.
Personally I detest the use of a wire brush like grinding wheel as I think that they do more damage than good by removing more than necessary and even eroding the base metal away.
A useful misuse of the wire brush. As for the second part of your answer, Walter, I agree with you 100%.
Solid job. Thanks for sharing another toy with a second shot at life! This one definately has some Sole.