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Offline CCS800KrokHunter3  
#1 Posted : 30 January 2011 03:56:24(UTC)
CCS800KrokHunter3

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Hello Marklin friends,

In the collection I had an old Marklin SK 800 tender in very poor condition so I decided to try a little bit of restoration on it.

Here is what it looked like before:

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And after:

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The catch is which one did I restore in the last two photos?

Regards,

Paul

P.S. I'll reveal my methods of restoration when someone figures out which one is repainted. NOTE: Only one is repainted, the rest are all original.
Offline cookee_nz  
#2 Posted : 30 January 2011 05:29:33(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: CCS800KrokHunter3 Go to Quoted Post
Hello Marklin friends,

In the collection I had an old Marklin SK 800 tender in very poor condition so I decided to try a little bit of restoration on it.

Here is what it looked like before:

UserPostedImage

And after:

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The catch is which one did I restore in the last two photos?

Regards,

Paul

P.S. I'll reveal my methods of restoration when someone figures out which one is repainted. NOTE: Only one is repainted, the rest are all original.


Good job, and tough call.

First picture - my pick is the middle one

Second pic - I'd say second on the left

Do I get a lolly-pop??

:-)
Cookee
Wellington
NZ image
Offline seatrains  
#3 Posted : 30 January 2011 05:58:03(UTC)
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Paul, ditto, same call as cookee..really, really nice work!! I can't even get close to that!!
Thom
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Offline Ranjit  
#4 Posted : 30 January 2011 07:30:18(UTC)
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Hey Paul, I think Steve has hit the nail on its head. He deserves a lolly-pop!

If you examine the pictures at high magnification, you will notice that all the SK800s have a bit of dust on them while the one that you repainted recently looks rather new.

Cheers,
Ranjit
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Offline CCS800KrokHunter3  
#5 Posted : 30 January 2011 09:21:07(UTC)
CCS800KrokHunter3

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You guys got it in both pictures, nice spotting!

So here's the method...(not the best but worked with materials I had around).

1. Soak in acetone bath (loosen paint)
2. Remove paint by chipping and sanding
3. Repair chips in metal and cracks with epoxy mixture
4. Sand & first coat spray paint
5. Sand second coat spray paint
6. Silver lines with metallic silver marker
7. Dull coat lacquer applied all over shell
8. Put the wiring and other original components back on the tender

I think it turned out rather nice. On close inspection it is easy to tell. I didn't do enough sanding so the epoxy is rather "wavy" and the lacquer is not exactly what Marklin used.

Overall, I'm happy and I saved the poor tender and perhaps one day I'll decide to have it professionally restored, but for now it displays well BigGrin.

Regards,

Paul
Offline FMS  
#6 Posted : 30 January 2011 17:20:14(UTC)
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Nice Job Paul!
Regards
FMS
Offline steventrain  
#7 Posted : 31 January 2011 11:59:01(UTC)
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Excellent.

Thanks for the tip, Paul.ThumpUp
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Offline Renoir911  
#8 Posted : 04 February 2011 06:57:47(UTC)
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Very nice work Paul.

Ren
Offline Renoir911  
#9 Posted : 04 February 2011 19:51:00(UTC)
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You may laugh at this but another way my dad (now deceased) fixed such problems was to add balsa wood soaked in crazy glue. Fill all the cracks with it then sand it down using an ultra fine grit (1000 to 6000) metal sand paper. The finish was glass like after several coatings sanded down to the metal. Marklin paint acquired overseas and that too was nearly impossible to tell apart from another unblemished tender. HE also used this same combination to repair the old metal engine frames that cracked and twisted due to poor petal (zinc pest). When he was done, they were true on the tracks and worked perfectly. That was ten years ago and they are still intact. Just my 2 cents worth. Wishing you all a great day.
My Marklin collection is posted on this collector site:

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/user/renoir911

RM
Offline Oscar  
#10 Posted : 05 February 2011 15:49:52(UTC)
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Awesome!
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