Restoring My Wehrle 112 Acme Sunburst Baseburner

It's coming along nicely!

Paul

This is beautiful!

Very interesting , hope to see the final results soon. Nice job

I've been making slow progress, and working on the pieces, cleaning and repairing. I found a hairline crack in one of the doors when I was bead-blasting parts, so I thought I should show the repair. I already showed a picture of this door before in the thread just after I tried some of the Williams stove black. These pictures show what I did to it. I used the same welding method as I used on the door knobs, the cast-iron piston rings and a torch. I ended up with a little pit on the outside, but I don't think it will be noticeable when the knob is installed and it's all covered with stove black. I was able to mimick the texture of the cast iron by heating the repair to red, then quickly tapping on a piece of sandpaper with a small hammer over the repaired area. Jerry

Im curious ,you said cast piston rings and torch, did you mean acetylene torch or tig torch? nice job burring out the crack .

"...................I ended up with a little pit on the outside, but I don't think it will be noticeable when the knob is installed and it's all covered with stove black. .........."

If you hadn't mentioned it, no one would ever notice the weld pit ! Very nice work !!!!!!!

The sand paper texture trick is great. I've done similar on casting braze repairs by using the fine point of an autobody pick hammer. The sand paper trick would have saved me an hour acting like a wood pecker with that hammer !

Paul

wilsons woodstoves wrote:Im curious ,you said cast piston rings and torch, did you mean acetylene torch or tig torch? nice job burring out the crack .

Wilson, take a look at the pictures on page 3.

Paul

thanks paul, some awesome craftmanship, I somehow missed that page. jerry ,keep the pics coming, Iam all for learning new (old) ways.realy great job. wilson

Those are some kind words. Thank you, I'm trying to not disappoint. This stove deserves to get the best I can give. Jerry

Thanks for the restoration lessons. Very nice job. Keep on posting.

Im sure one ingredient with most polish was lampblack and some used what seems like grathite,petro base ???

wilsons woodstoves wrote:Im sure one ingredient with most polish was lampblack and some used what seems like grathite,petro base ???

Some use lamp black, plus graphite, yes.

The girl friends family (and ancestors) sold what was a stove polish recipe from the 1800's. Their stove polish was petroleum jelly and graphite heated and mixed, . . with winter green added to hide the burning petroleum jelly smell. I used it just once.

I now use Meeco brand, which doesn't smoke, and only smells faintly like school art class water-based poster paints. Holds up just as well as any others I tried so far.

Paul

The plater finished the parts so I picked them up today. It's getting closer to being ready to re-assemble! I think he did a fine job. Jerry

WOW, you gotta love shiny

More: This is the part I re-cut the scroll into on the left side that was missing from the factory: This part was broken and I welded it. You can see it in an earlier post when I finished welding it.