How do you plan to resurface the cast iron top?

While you're at checking the blade angle, I would also check the squareness of the miter slots to the blade itself. There are videos galore to accomplish this task

 

Yep, that's the HF DC I was talking about. As far as number of ports, you could have as many as you want. Just use gates to block off the ports you don't need at the time. I have 4 hooked up to my DC, but only just 1 or 2 at a time. They have them at HF (http://www.harborfreight.com/4-inch-...rol-97497.html) but I used the ones at rockler because they can be screwed down making them easier to use (http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?p...0&site=ROCKLER)

I have a hose running from the DC up to the ceiling, and then branches off of that.

 

start off with liquid wrench, spray it on liberally, allow to soak and then wipe. After that it is liquid wrench as the medium and wet/dry sand paper starting at a rough grit and working towards fine. I have refinished one other cast iron top such as this for my grand father in law. Get her nice and shiny than coat with a good carnuba wax to prevent future oxidation.

I need to do this on the work surface for my new to me drill press as well.

I am thinking about stripping the angle irons for the bisei and having a buddy powder coat them to avoid any future issue. The rail tube its self I will strip and paint. I don't want to add any extra width/height to the precision piece and I am afraid that PC by it's nature will be too thick to use.

 

Holy moly that sounds extensive. :P

Then again I am restoring a hand plane right now with sand paper and it is redonkulously annoying and time consuming.

Looking forward to pics. Sounds like you are going to give her a nice life of woodworking!!!

 

The last one wasn't as bad as this one, and I had about 14 hours of sanding into it. I might use a gasket disc on my die grinder this time around. It has a bunch of rubber nubs that are intended to strip away gasket without damaging mating surfaces, such as cylinder heads, intake manifolds, etc. I am hoping it might cut down on some of the labor intensive rough sanding, and just allow me to do a nice hand sand with fine grit to finish it off :happysad: