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Yes your right ash the two most important parts of the sandcast are the frame and engine and yep thank goodness they are real good, the rest of the parts crop up all over the place, as you know my finance situation has stopped me buying any big ticket items , like chrome and other bits but there is no excuse for not getting stuck in with hard restoration work myself, so that is what i am doing, i had so many pm's from people on the sandcast site and over here saying just buy the sandcast or someone else will and you will regret it , to be honest i had in my mind already committed to buying it , i dont listen to the negative comments , i know what i like and want in life , i still get excited when i think of how my sandcast and K0 will come out eventually, now that is an illness ha haAs for spraying the frame verses powder coat , there is another element you have to consider, for example whatever surface the baster leaves is what your going to get on your finished frame , for example my k0 frame must of had forward footrests or crash bars at one stage of its life, where they fix to the frame the clamps were over tightened and left indents in the frame, these are clearly visible as are many other marks, where as if you do yourself there is the chance to perfect the finish if you requireWhat did your wife say when he pinched her arse LOLPetepete
Thats funny about the wifes arse ash i contacted will about the brackets but the frame he has is on ebay and i cant justify the asking price for two small brackets, richard is going to look into making up the brackets, so i will see how that pans out, and he will be able to take measurements from his k0 hopefullypete
As you can see from my previous post i am tackling the blasting and painting of my frame myself,this is for two reasons, number 1 is i just dont trust anyone to do it with the same care and attention that i will, and reason 2 is i usually powdercoat but this de values the sandcast , it is a big no no when you speak to any sandcast owner restorer, oh yes there is a third reason , i do not have the money to pay someone elseYesterday i thought this would be a doddle probably an hour or two's work, how wrong could i be, my blaster just was not getting through the two layers of paint very quickly if atal in places, so i whipped out and got some paint stripper, quick word of advise do not ever by nitromores stripper, its expensive and totally shit, it just would not lift the paint, so i was out side till 11 last night trying to scrape off soft paint with a stanley blade and then go over it with a scotchbrite wheel on the drill, this got a good deal of it off so this morning i did more scraping , more blasting and more scotchwheeling and ended up with a shiney bare metal frame, all i can say is thank goodness that is overnow i have the problem of finding a doner frame and getting the seat hinges cut off and welded on to my frame as some mother f--er ground them off, as well as the side stand bracket which i have just donenow with all this moisture in the air at this time of year it would be stupid to leave it bare metal, so i have sprayed it up with some rust preventing primer till i get the seat bracket situation sorted, that way it wont start rusting in a hurry, i also wrapped it in a blanket then boxed it up and have stashed itTake a look there is absolutely no rust on this frame, the very light surface rust that was there came clean off with the blaster, so them two layers of awkward paint done the job, other than the ground off brackets you could not wish for a better 45 year old framepete[imghttp://cb750sandcastonly.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10004/sandcast_008~2.JPG]http://[/img]
