Vintage Handmade Weapon Restoration - Antique Rusty Weapon Restoration

In this video I this video I'm restoring a 70 year old Yale lift truck. I picked this up a while ago when I came across it in a very cool antique store in the UK. As soon as I saw it, I knew it had to restore this beauty. I lugged it into the back of my car and have been storing it ever since. The trucked worked just as it did the day it came out of the factory and I'm not suprised. This thing is built like a tank and made to last. I few nuts were seriously seized, one of them I had to destroy. The other one was the one holding the bearings in the bearing cover for the spinning wheel. I didn't want to destroy the nut so I cleaned it out with contact cleaner, baked it and packed it with new grease. All of this sadly happened off camera as I was using a bad battery without knowing it. I really couldn't find any inforamtion about this particular lift truck. The colour I painted it was matched as best I could to the origional. Spare parts were a not an option with this one. I like to keep things as origonal as possible, all of the origional parts were used besides the spit pins. The stickers were printed by a company and they got the size slightly wrong. It's not a big deal and I have a sticker primer on order to rectify this in the future. I'm really happy with the final results. Timestamps: 00:00 – Intro 00:15 – Showing the lift truck 00:26 – The dissasembly 05:11 – Knowling all of the pieces 05:30 – Degreasing in the parts washer 05:55 – Paint stripping 06:32 – Removing the rust 08:13 – Paiting all of the parts with etch primer and wet on wet primer 08:36 – Cleaning up all of the casting imperfections 09:40 – Painting the primer, base coat and clear coat 12:50 – Making the new sticker 13:59 – Working on the plaque 14:47 – Zinc electroplating the unpaitned parts 15:22 – Knowling all of the restored parts 16:06 – Reassembly 22:48 – Before and after 23:09 – RNR eBay – Stay tuned 23:19 – Thanks for watching