Hi again Melb,
Your bottom knife Balde is absolutely great as far as amount of material on it is concerned as is the reel itself also. I'm not sure if I'm seeing a small imperfection from hitting something near the 4th reel sector anchor disc from the left.
To be brutally honest if you were only thinking of a quick repaint then I'd suggest you just get it running perfect and use it until you feel that you want to do a full ground up resto on it, like I've said it's a beautiful survivor and it's previous tenants must be commended on keeping it like it is. Also at $120 that's against the law LOL !
As far as the single ID plate on it is this tells me that it's in the 1960's or very early 70's but not past 1971 ~1972.
If you do have the ability to track its provenance back, please do so as it would very much help out our historian CyberJack who is currently working on the SB history.
I shall write again tomorrow regarding the maintenance side of things with the reel and bed knife after you let me know about what I might suspect a small nick in the bed knife.
Cheers for now,
BB
