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SPR:
Wow - what can I say !!! they look fantastic and night and day from the original
And the dipstick as well !! you were right the old one did let the side down somewhat :)
You Ken are a true gent but I'll pm you as your really need payment for all the time and effort you have gone to
Many Many thanks
Simon
Johnny4428:
They look stunning Ken, great job as usual. I’m with you Sesman going to have to remove mine now and see if I can improve them a bit.
Oddjob:
A word of warning about doing these covers. I've done a few pairs now and every single one exhibited the same odd feature. When you strip them of the lacquer and paint you'll find the bottom edge for some reason looks buckled, the metal is not smooth at all. Weird sorts of flow marks start to appear as well, like when the alloy was cooling it didn't set at the same rate everywhere.
The best advice I can give it to use those discs I told you to buy Phil, the ones from Amazon, start off with dark blue and go down to red afterwards to smooth out the metal, finish with a light blue.
Best thing I can say is don't give up, sometimes things are not going well and you think you'll never get them smooth but keep at it, be prepared to spend some hours on each one, the better the prep the better the result.
Laverdaroo:
Had a go at mine today, no where as good as yours Ken but that goes without saying. They were in an awful state and gauged badly with some clonking scratches.
I bought some of those disks Ken mentioned; wish I’d boy got them when I did the 400 they’re ace and saves loads of time!
Couple of stages enclosed, reasonable happy but going to have a look in the light tomorrow, might give em another bash.
Rattled over them with those plastic discs as mentioned then got the bench grinder swapped round and jJust that grey soap on the stitched cloth followed by the white on the solid cotton one Ken. Not bad considering I’d rather pour molten lead into my nose than polish metal
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