Lucked out today snagged a nice DW-788 in a local pawn shop they had it listed for $250 I offered $150 cash and we settled on $180
Its marked Type 1 Canada 97-25-80 What does that mean ? Does that mean its made in 97 ?
Anyways the machine itself is in great shape working perfectly
the only defects it has are on the table the blade opening is chopped up a little and it has this strange pitting like stain ?
When i looked at it in the pawn shop i thought its just surface rust or even just a spill that would be easily cleaned up but i was wrong what ever spilled on it ate into the iron I tried sanding it hit it with a palm sander first that didn't help at all then I tried hitting a small area with angle grinder and a wire buffer pad on it that kind of cleaned out some of the corrosion leaving a small gouge maybe as deep as a piece of paper or so as you can see in the bottom picture front part
I thought that might be making it worse so i stopped
The pitting is like some kind of chemical acid ate into it
It really don't affect the operation of the unit but I'd love to restore it any ideas what i can do ?
