CASE POLISHING

My mate Alain and I have recently been looking bat a way to clean up old, filthy cases. Another friend had made up an electric motor with a chuck bolted to the spindle which was fine for rimless, parallel cases although it necessitated the case be mounted in the chuck at both ends to clean the whole case. It was also quite a fast motor.

Being a Yorkshireman as you know, and wanting to save every penny I could I started to look around my now clean and tidy workshop for a cheap solution. Yesterday afternoon, after receiving a special piece of kit from my mate with a lathe I built what I think is a rather good polishing machine.

It consists of an old drill that I keep for powering a small pump to empty water from our pool cover if it sags. The whole principal of the kit ( apart from it's cost ) is that the drill can be removed for other jobs in about 30 seconds.

The following photographs are self explanatory I think but one thing I added after the initial trial was the hand speed control ( old dimmer switch from a standard lamp that bust ) It means I can vary the speed to suite the job. Anyway, I did 20 HXP cases as a quick test and it works perfectly, even allowing the case base to be polished at the same time - COST £0-00p ...........RESULT