A bit of a long term project this one. Just before lockdown Chris of Bannerman butchers asked me to have an eyeball on his really old meat slicer had he had managed to snap the bolt holding the blade onto the shaft. As we should help out other small businesses I said I would have a go at it. After stripping down the slicer I started to realise that someone had painted it really badly and there was a few other faults with it.

The plan to completely overhaul it was born.

As normal i haven’t taken many pictures of the process.

Firstly the entire machine was stripped back to the base parts and these were sent off to Tec spray in aberdeen to get them powder coated in bright orange.

The parts which weren’t powder coated where badly tarnished so those were polished up as much as i could using the polishing system i have

The belts were older than Chris and they where identified and replaced by Hayley in their aberdeen branch

I machined out the broken bolt and welded in a new stud to the old one and to prevent Chris from using his own “unique” way of removing i made a new pin wrench to fit the old blade bolt

The electrical wiring was in poor condition so i replaced it with the stuff i have onhand for horse clippers

The orginal thickness knob had vanished and the thickness was being set by gripping the end of the shaft and turning it.

Instead of buying a new knob for a 1960’s slicer i went a slightly different path which is detailed HERE but basically i made a pattern with 3D printing and then cast a new one using epoxy and copper powder