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Trigger:

--- Quote from: haynes66 on January 24, 2018, 07:56:17 AM ---is that the company you use, trig?

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Nope, the company I use only deal with the trade on dipping and you have to book a tank for a time period  ;) May take a sample over to prostrip and see how it comes out.

AshimotoK0:
Someone told me about this guy ...  Steve Smethurst (your neck of the woods Oddjob/Mr Davo and not too far from our other Lancastrian buddies on here  :))  )

www.aloh.co.uk

Looks very interesting, evidently does work for http://www.classicbikes.co.uk/

Certainly lots of information on his processes on aluminium alloys on his website.

In the 90's, he evidently imported 750 K0/ sandcasts and  Z1's by the bucketload before anyone over here really knew about the sandcast 750 vs diecast bandwagon

Incidentally .. I have used this stuff De-OxC for years, as we have a heated bath of it at work, but never tried it on a fuel tank. Not so sure about really bad tanks but I recently tried two CD175A tanks with it that had a fair amount of surface corrosion inside and it worked brilliantly ...and that was at room temperature. Not too pricey either and non-toxic.

https://www.bilthamber.com/corrosion-protection-and-rust-treatments/deox-c

I won't tell you how I remove varnish/ liner from tanks ..it's too mad scientist and non PC to discussed on these ramblings.

Orcade-Ian:
I can certainly recommend Steve Smethurst, he’s done a few Ducati engines and a Norton Single for me.  They come out looking like they’ve just been knocked out of their sand moulds and spotless. Not cheap but very fair on price for the amount of time spent.
I also use Deox - C from Bilt Hamber, they also do a gel version. Be careful googling that company, the first entry is for their products but via another company who charge a premium. Look a bit further down the list.
Ian

Laverda Dave:
I saw some of Steve's work at a show a few years ago and it really was top notch, amazing quality. I was going to use him for the 250RSA engine cases but as I was going to repaint them I just had them vapour blasted. No doubt I will use his services when I come to restoring the CR750.

Greg65:
Thanks for all the links it’s greatly appreciated.

Happy bolting one and all.

Greg

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