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polishing thread?
Oddjob:
TBH that's looking fine, ok so there are some marks but now you need to step up the fineness of the brushes you're using. What did you use to get that finish?
I told you that bolt would be stuck didn't I? Gotta get it out now Ted before you go any further, got Max making some out of stainless so even if you ruin it getting it out it's not the end of the world.
Seriously, keep at it, I did say you'd be asking yourself what you had started and how you wished you hadn't, again and again. That's the inexperience talking, I went through it, Roos going through it and so will everyone else, I'd be pleased with that, sure there are some rough patches but you just need to use finer and finer brushes, trim the edge down with a flap wheel where it's broken, give it a shape, round the edges off so it looks like it should be like that.
I'd say another 3-4 hours and that will be fine.
Get some wire brushes for the Dremel, NOT brass, waste of time brass brushes, get forward facing wire brushes, metal ones, get into the centre of those rivets and get all that rust and corrosion out, get into the corners where the flange starts, smooth out those scraggy bits you can see.
It's coming on Ted, you may have the knack ;D ;D
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
I've been using light blue then for the last half an hour white.
The brake steady arm bolt is well stuck - tried to press it out in the vice jaws by using a socket that just goes over the threads (9mm) and a large one on the other side that clears where it should emerge - no joy.
Currently giving it some releasing fluid again. Not tried heat yet.
Laverdaroo:
Feeling your pain Ted but chuckling quietly as I'm10 hours ahead of you!
Just stick with it buddy, all of a sudden it willbecome less than a waste of time, I promise..............Ken said!
Least you'll be all 'Buff' for Wendy with those super toned arms and newly found, vice like grip ;)
Nurse Julie:
I cant believe with the current price of electricity, that so much time is being spent on polishing. I am a novice polisher, I've done a few big bits over the years for Graham, under his guidance and I'm sure it never took so many hours. At that rate, it would cost £500 to get a professional polisher to do a brake plate at that hourly rate 😂😂😂😂I've just done half of this end cap, it took me less than 2 minutes and it hasn't had a final polish yet. This was just using a satin mop and a stage 2 soft mop, with no cutting back.
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Laverdaroo:
Yeah, all very well Julie but Ive nothing else to do at the min so it doesnt matter and most of mine is by hand. Saying that, If I can rig myself upto the grid on an elbow driven dynamo, I could sell them bit back to the grid maybe?
That back plate, although from Gary so not part of the original scrap I started on, still looked like it had been shot peened before I started. It still looks shot peened.............just flat and shot peened ;D
In my defense, I'm crap at it, rather somebody else do it, only an antique bench grinder and a rapidly forming OCD complex sofinding it very hard.........Oh and I detest it, did I mention that bit? But stuck with nowt to do so gritting my teeth and getting on with it.. ;) ;D
Besides is southern blues night on Planet Rock so Ive got til midnight to fiddle about as the LHG is working at the pub tonight ;D
Didnt you want your cam caps flat then, just shiny? ;) :D
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