Ive been a member here for a while, first with the ambition to build a benchtop cnc. But, recently I aquired a ram head bridgeport from 1950. I'm rebuilding the entire thing to clean it up and get it looking pretty for the cnc conversion it will be getting soon. First things first though, for my wife to have so much patience of letting me do this, I let her pick the paint color. And she chose red. Furthermore, thinking into the process, I was thinking I'd two tone it, because red just doesn't seem like it's gonna look right.(but I already gave her the choice, and I know when not to argue)
So, onto the question, and off the rambling. With the coolant always building up on base, and with the chips building up there, I thought of maybe using a brush on bed liner material. It seems like a two part winner for me. One, it breaks up my color problem, and two, it would provide a hard coat barrier against coolant and metal chips.
So, any thoughts on this? And has anyone done it already?
I've already got the thing stripped down, but if anyone is interested in the rebuild part of it, I can get some pics.
Thanks,
Troy