humongous toy airplane UPDATE

[villagenut]

This sucker was a tough one to get to this point, harder than most anyways. Still needs some work but figured I would post it as an update. I thought it was a doorstop but I have actually found the same TOY in an online search. Thanks for lookin,vn

 

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[vpnavy]

Looking good - here is your first thread: humongous toy airplane.....cast iron (Jan 22, 2017, 07:16 PM)

 

[TRanegar36]

Wow-- you have that plane looking good!

 

[Johncoho]

Wow! Beautiful job on cleaning that plane. How did you clean it?

 

[trapperart]

Nice job

 

[villagenut]

Wow! Beautiful job on cleaning that plane. How did you clean it?

A good long electrolysis bath and a whole lot of pickin and flickin.

 

[kingskid1611]

Wonderful restoration.....

 

[weregolf]

Nice relic

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Beautiful restoration job!

 

[Icewing]

A good long electrolysis bath and a whole lot of pickin and flickin.

Looking good so far, I'd change out your water and put it back in electrolysis now that you have all the loose junk off. The last little bit will let go ahead and let go pretty quick at this point. Keep up the good work.

 

[villagenut]

I did end up with a little more refining but stopped due to the fragile nature of those wings. Being cast iron and relativly thin, I saw the need to stop and fine tune it by hand( I use a Dremel). It is now in the finders hands as I just did the cleaning for him. I did not want to take it too far and ruin it ....with fragile cast iron this can happen. Thanks for the input though. Vn

 

[Icewing]

I did end up with a little more refining but stopped due to the fragile nature of those wings. Being cast iron and relativly thin, I saw the need to stop and fine tune it by hand( I use a Dremel). It is now in the finders hands as I just did the cleaning for him. I did not want to take it too far and ruin it ....with fragile cast iron this can happen. Thanks for the input though. Vn

Ah, it sounds like you did the right thing then, I didn't realize it was so thin. Looks good and I'm sure the owner loves it.

 

[Carolina Tom]

Congrats on being able to get it back into shape. It looks very cool to me.

Best of luck sir!

 

[villagenut]

Yes the person who dug it has it in a display at their 1920s era home along with other artifacts from the homes earlier days. Kinda like a time capsule from the kids who once played on its breezy porchest. It's part of the house now.

 

[BallsDeep]

very nice!

 

[boogeyman]

Excellent work! Glad you slowed down before you lost details!

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Man that plane turned out amazing!
All it takes to restore items like this is time and the patience not to rush the process.

Dave

 

[villagenut]

Yes, I agree. All iron restoration is a labor of love,for sure.

 

[RudyT]

Great job!!

 

[pepperj]

Great results with the plane.