Been a while, been collecting some old 'arn. Joe and Patrick posted up their absolutely beautiful restorations/modifications of their respective T23's. I was on the hunt for a Baurele shaper at auction that I missed (it went to the moon in terms of pricing) and so I was hunting around and found this T23.
Previous owner is a lifelong woodworker, loves old tools and had enough machines that he simply parked this one in the corner and didn't bother with it. I suspect some of the intricacies of this machine caused enough of a headache that he didn't want to run it. The big one being the same issue Patrick ran into, which was to deal with the slow drip oil pump for the bearings.
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It has some sort of shop made makeshift oil pump and the spindle shows .002" runout so clearly the oil pump didn't serve it that well.
I got it delivered and started to dig in. I had little intention of doing anything more than cleaning up a few things and painting a few parts. It took hours to clean the sawdust, grease and old oil out of the machine to get it working smoothly through the motions. Surprising that even a clean looking machine was loaded to the gills with nasty grime.
I could tell at this point that it was repainted by a prior seller at some point in its life, with exception to the silver plates on the front. I did a bit of touch up to the lettering and cleaned, polished the aluminum tags around the wheel along with cleaning painting the wheel. In addition I stripped and gun-blued the handles for the hood. All the beat up old kipp levers hit the trash and we replaced by steel handles (elesa makes these in germany) generally I like the steel handles better and I feel they match style.
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And the lettering
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The feeder was absolutely packed to the gills with wood filled grease and gear oil that turned into sludge. I cleaned it out and then painted it up. Paint job needs some de-turding after it hardens up to remove the little dusts that I can't escape.
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Brought a sliding table in from Germany, it's made by Panhans. The bearings were dead so I replaced them so far and have begun painting to match the grey. I originally wanted to do light green hammer tone but it's become impossible to buy. Also could have left it alone but I wanted the top gear to match style. Replaced the beat up handles and repaired the beat up hardware.
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New Spindle bearings arrived and working out an oil pump solution. It's been an uphill battle since I am trying to avoid having air/oil and would like an electric pump. I bought a Bijur surefire and I'm planning the lines and valves to get 'er going.
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Originally Posted by Bill Dufour
