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Renovation Time
Spitfire:
It's really nice to see a nice shiny engine, nice one
Cheers
Den
UK Pete:
All looking good, what sand do you use
pete
z1100r:
My outdoor blasting is crude....I use one of those big bags they deliver sand/gravel in to put the componets in. I then wear a balaclava and goggles and weild my shotblasting gun in basically open air. The bag catches some of the sand. I use Kiln dried sand from BandQ and just poke the pipe that hangs from the gun into the bag.
I usually only do the crankcases like this with the engine assembled and sealed up because the stuff goes everywhere.
Individual parts then go in my Vapour blaster...really just a wet blasting cabinet..which uses Pink saftigrit alumina oxide stuff - which has just run out unfortunately so I've come to a halt.
I spent all last night on a polisher doing the covers instead.....wow ... wait till you see those, like bloody chrome, amazing.
Got the clutch and gen covers left to do tonight. A very mucky job though.
Only the barrel left on the engine now to be blasted and painted then it can be put back together again.
z1100r:
some more pics.....I'm not blasting painting and polishing at the moment as I've had to order bloody expensive grit for my wet blaster. Never had to buy any before as the machine came full...oh well it certainly lasted a long time.
Stainless bolts and screws still not arrived...!!! polished ally bits look alot better than photos...gotta stop taking pics in the dark.
UK Pete:
Beautiful, i just love blasted and polished metal
pete
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