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Thanks for the positive comments on this and the microwave transformer spot-welder. Always encouraging when members spur you on.

JoJo (Steve) is going to be a way for a few weeks...so agreed to rough polish the other three carbs for him. Then I will send a pic to 'Miss Diane'  at Prestige Electroplating, as she was the one who encouraged us that the carbs could be recovered successfully.

Left my mate 'Dodgy Roger' playing with his home-made vapour blaster yesterday. He was using a submersible pump to pump the water/glass slurry.... . I doubt that the pump is up to the job and will wear out in no time but always great to see people 'have a go' and hope I am proved wrong. He's got it in a nice cabinet though made of stainless steel with a pneumatically controlled top opening cover. Will post some pics on here. It definitely needs a windscreen wiper adding to the inspection window though.

Anyone elso had a go at a DIY vapour blaster?

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I'm 99% sure he has one Ash. I offered my RSA to David Silver for his museum and was told they already had one.
Maybe if you call them and ask for Charles Cheshire he might measure their tank for you?
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He's evidently got a red one Dave according to his lists. I will be going to his 400 event ... maybe that's the time.

Seem to remember he got his SS50 from someone on here ... was that you?

Steve (JojoTut on here) who's carbs they are asked what I used after Prestige stripped the chrome and nickel but not all of the copper.

This is what I used to remove the remaining copper plating  & give it a rough polish. Started out as 6 squares of el-cheapo green Scotchbrite on the arbor that you usually mount polishing mops on. Very forgiving and gets into the nooks & crannies really effectively. No need to cut out circles, they end up circular fairly quickly anyway and the setup lasts for ages before they wear down too small to use effectively. Polishing motor came out of the skip at work after we got flooded in 2013. It just needed new bearings.


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Hi Ash,
Just had a message from the AJ guy here and he says it's the same as his 16MS as I thought.

Ian

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When I Googled that though Ian, the 16MS underside looked different but the Matchless one I posted looks identical. What do you reckon?

Possibly AJS ..dunno... got it with a load of old Honda parts.

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Dave .. yes I have the wavy strip and slide hammer etc but I found that it's best to put a metal block on the tank and use it as a fulcrum with a bar or screwdriver passed through the eyelet of the welded tab. You also need to apply heat to the area. Bike tanks are probably thicker than car panels and the dents are on awkward curved areas. It does seem to take a lot of force in order to 'move' the metal.

Made this to pull lots of dents out of a CB500 Four tank.

NO this is not the 500 tank you kindly passed onto me Trigger ...I will let you have that one back.

Plan is ludicrous really. I have a beautiful Candy Jet (Jade) Green K0 paint set done by Menno a couple of years back pre-#@%$. A perfect NOS Candy Custom Gold tank with a pair of decent panels. However, I want to have a go at candy painting and the K0 came in Starlight Gold not Candy Custom Gold. So that's going to be this one is going to be. Well, that's the plan. Then all of my painting escapades will be over and I will hang up my guns for a bit.

Made from two scrap microwave transformers, timer module off eBay and one of my customers heavy duty solenoid switches (they use my automated test system in Hampshire & Lithuania and have sent me lots of samples over the years to set up the testing of their product range.)  I had to use two transformers in series connection in the end as one transformer didn't provide enough welly to geta decent weld.

Video here:-

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mPaUYmkHL-8