GARAGE: Old grinder cleanup / Table restoration

So I recently managed to get this grinding machine for free from my father-in-law’s old workshop.

It’s an old-school heavy duty (literary) Swiss-made WASU (Walter Suter) industrial grinder.

The whole thing was fully functional, but quite dirty, hasn’t been used in a long while and the stand was really oil soaked and dirty. The good thing, though, is that it came with a lot of accessories, like plenty of high-quality sanding belts, grinder disks, a wire wheel and a grinding disk grinder (to make the disk even again – that long handle thing).

First i removed the grinder from the table, and got rid of all bolts:

Then i started to sand down the dirty table planks:

And then coated them in classic linseed oil varnish (I just love the smell of it):

I think it turned out very well.

I also decided to give all metal parts  (after I cleaned them, of course) a burnishing surface treatment with Brunox

And then assembled everything back together, after cleaning everything properly, etc. It doesn’t look like new, but that was never my intention. Just now it looks like a proper machine-in-use vs the “abandoned” and dirty look it had before. Looking forward to using this gem again soon!