GHA Milling Machine Restoration (Deckel FP1 Clone)

Awesome, Tom. Im glad that you didnt mess with the gearbox. I spent 2 months to just put them back together.

The spirit of Jimmy Diresta is strong with this one.

You know, I was getting a little tired from all the 2 hour ASMR machine restoration videos - glad to see something different, dead to the point and with useful narrative. Well done!

I loved this video! I like machines...bigger is better! I am a bit OCD so this restoration is right up my alley and you covered all the bases without missing or ignoring too much. I love metal on metal sounds when the metal is hard and smooth. That sounds like quality! You did a very nice job.

Those Deckels are the cat's meow in the machining world! Made in Germany (not the knock offs) by very detail oriented German engineers and machinists. Stefan Gotteswinter recently got one and he couldn't be happier. It's the Swiss Army knife of Mills. Your restoration looks fabulous! Thanks for sharing! 😀

Really cool resto video, Tommy! The editing job you did was exceptional, giving us a birds-eye view of the entire process. Classic mill!

Great job, versatile machine. My father worked at G H Alexander in the mid to late seventies, he was on the maintenance there, I think they built and offered a broaching capacity, and special machine tools, I remember one for turning wrist watch winders screws, when I visited as a youngster. This was in Dudley, Worcestershire, north west of Birmingham. Heres to a great MMXXI. Thanks for sharing. Best regards John from the UK.

Congrats for the big work and video. I have an FP1 copy on its way to me, which should have been well maintained. It didn't come cheap, but it has both the regular and the high speed heads, as well the fixed and swiveling tables. These are on a pallet now and taking up already a lot of space, I am not fit enough to replace any of these by myself so I will have to make a wheeled cart to have them near and attach a winch to the roof beams. I think all the work needed to put it back in service and then learn how to make parts will keep me busy already, so won't be blogging or making videos. But I have almost finished translating the German manual and will be glad to share it on some forum, as apparently one can't get an English version without paying exaggerated money.

WD and a brush helped me restore many a bicycle left out in the rain. Great content!

Love the omniversal table feature, happy new Year, cheers from John, Australia.

Nice cleanup on a nice machine. Glad you're going to "revisit" some aspects of it you found that need work.

Great video, I’ve used this in the past on a table saw restauration and it works great, they also have rest inhibitor that works great. Boeshield RustFree Rust and Stain Remover

Hot Damn!! Another adherent of the "crescent wrench with a hole as cheater bar" school of machining!!!

I am so tired of people confusing what you need with what you want. You dont NEED it but you WANT IT! Good to go!

I do enjoy mill rehab videos. This was fun, if fast.

I just ran across your video and the color of the mill got my attention.. Thoroughly enjoyed it so I subbed... Don't let me down Tom. Lol.. Looking forward to the gantry crane build..

Awesome job. Love the Doctor Who reference!

Interesting video. Thanks. You got a lot done in a short amount of time.

Awesome! I Have an original Deckel FP1, including that same swiveling table, but with auto-feeds. I miss the slotting head though. Very interesting to finally see a high-quality video of a fp1 teardown. Never been "down to the bones" as you have. Mechanically, it looks almost identical to mine. Although I'm not half as cleanly as you seem to be... congrats on the nice job and the great video.

Love it! Great editing work too. The many hours were worth it.