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1971 CB500K0 Resto 3/71 VIN 1000896
AshimotoK0:
--- Quote from: Jamesh_sussex on December 01, 2015, 08:16:52 PM ---Looks like you're giving that bead blaster a good workout ash!! Nice progress.
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Yea I just love bead blasting :-* I find it really therapeutic ... I have blasted the hell out of 50/100 glass beads and it takes a while to strip but the finish is mega fine.
Wife just got back from overnight stay in London with my daughter .. "Hope you wasn't bored last night without us" ... think you all know what the answer was that I muttered under my breath ;D ;D
matthewmosse:
I now do shot blasting at work and we are having issues with both the rough finish the metal shot leaves and the reclaim system not being up to recovering the metal shot afterwards. What exactly is the blast media you are using, would it be re useable and is it costly and would it cope with removing rust and scale? I am wondering if we need to investigate different products a bit, to my mind a rough finish is ok on industrial kit and working fast is kind of vital for us but I am wondering if the bead blasting might answer their requirement for a finer finish, it looks like it could be almost used to just get a keyed finish on powdercoat rather than go back to bare steel. A lot of what I end up doing is just sanding stuff to get a key.
AshimotoK0:
Hi Matt ...I use this ... scroll down to 50/100 grade "Vixosheen"
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vixen-Vixosheen-Glass-Bead-Media-25kg-Blasting-Shot-Sand-Grit-Abrasive-/321928939735
Pic of the cabinet (Vixen) attached. The extraction/media recovery system works well on it.
It definitely removes rust but not the best grade/media for thick paint but paint on frame parts (like footpegs etc) comes off great with it.
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UK Pete:
Thats a good piece of kit to have use of ash
pete
AshimotoK0:
Yea Pete .. Like I said to James when I met him, I work now 3 days/week for a mate of mines company (I still have my own electronics design business though) . As a joke really, my mate, the owner called me in at 'Staff Appraisal' time, which was just a load of jokes and banter really. He asked me what was the best reason for joining the company and he was surprised by the answer, which was " By a mile ... the access to use of the bead blaster" ;D ... He was expecting something more corporate and deeper meaning I think. Myself and another guy who's building a CX500 cafe racer conned him into buying the blast cabinet after we got flooded. I think it's done about 2 hours blasting for the purpose it was supposedly bought for ;D.
BTW you may remember I came up with a brew (caustic soda/EDTA and Trietholamine) for removing zinc plate ) .. well I pinched the slow cooker out of the loft (unused for about 25 years) to heat the 'brew' with ... Hence no invites to any of you for a casserole at my place... Well I bought the wife a new one from Aldi for 12.99 at the weekend .. Worth buying for rubber soffening /de-plating zinc etc for that money. Oh and you are safe to eat at my house again if you ever visit ;)
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