Boy was this a task. It was vintage 1989, and it was in tatters. One of the supports broke off under my weight one day, nearly dumped me in the drink. The chain broke off in my hand. Then we tried to take it all apart, and half a dozen bolts and things sheared off. Some of the tubing had rotted (I didn’t even know 304 stainless could rot, but that’s sure what this looked like.
Conveniently, Scanmar is located just 10 minutes away in Richmond. I went up there with the monitor in pieces and carried it inside, and they had a grand time poking it and giving me fantastic advice on how to restore it to pristine condition.
I took a piece of it back home to my dad to weld this past christmas (before I learned how to myself). I did a post about it on the syzygy site.
We spent $600 on new parts–everything that wasn’t in excellent condition was replaced–and put it all back together fastidiously (do I know any other way?). Everything is as frictionless as possible and as tight as possible (with out binding). And ready to go.
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