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Re: Restoring Rusty
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#6577 |
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Re: Restoring Rusty
so a bit of bad news aka Grinder Update, well even with new brushes and new bearings that thing struggles to spin, gives off a funny smell, and sounds like the ice cube dispenser in my fridge
so I did the right thing and jumped on The eBay and bought another one, also used, also broken aka "For Parts Only" in hopes that out of two broken ones WE (yes you are in on this too after all) WE can end up with maybe one semi quiet non smokey spinner!? Last edited by Gregski; 09-06-2021 at 01:43 PM. |
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#6578 |
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Re: Restoring Rusty
praise be to Jeff - we may just be back on track
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#6579 |
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Re: Restoring Rusty
so glad my new angle grinder came with the spring cleaning bench attachment, ha ha
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#6580 |
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after wire wheelin' all the loose rust off the bench seat frame, we got it into the acid bath, looking pretty good
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Re: Restoring Rusty
Good job! It is looking good
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#6582 |
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Re: Restoring Rusty
Thanks, good enuff for the girls we play checkers with, here it is after the fine wheelin' ready for primer
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I like to get the cleaned raw metal parts in primer right quick, as they have a tendency to flash rust imediatemente
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#6584 |
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Re: Restoring Rusty
so we ended up with 8 broken springs, and I tell you what, I bet you have more weakened or broken springs in your bench seat than you think, I knew some were gonna brake as I tried to take them out of the frame, but others showed how weak they were only once I took a wire wheel to them and knocked off all the rust
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#6585 |
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had a little assembly line going, these springs are awaiting the dance with the wire wheel
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and these have already been cleaned, one by one mind you
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all in all I managed to salvage and clean a dozen springs, though only 11 survived as 1 seemed to spring from the angle grinder and go flying into our new neighbor's back yard... allegedly
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#6588 |
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Re: Restoring Rusty
You are correct about that. One of the things I do, when restoring the seats, is making sure all the springs are good. People just don’t realize that there is a lot of issues hiding under there.
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and then it was time to make things black
I like to paint with a brush because.... I'm old! |
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Me: Let's paint with a brush so we don't waste that much paint
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#6591 |
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then we paintenated the bottom portion
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even the springs got some love
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#6593 |
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I don't know about you, but I like to finish up my bench seat frame restoration by painting my tail pipes
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#6594 |
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Re: Restoring Rusty
Ah but Greg, surely you did not use that "regular" paint on your exhaust, and went out and bought proper high heat BBQ paint or manifold paint?
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Re: Restoring Rusty
guys I honestly don't know what I did to upset the upholstery gods Vinyllo and Leatherodite but it's been 10 days now since I ordered my bench seat cover from USA1 and no cover yet, not even a shipping confirmation nor a tracking number
So I authored an electronic mail to their customer service department and received this message: "All seat covers currently have a 8-10 week lead time from order date at this time." well had I known this I would NOT have ordered from them, I would have raised a calf to full grown cow myself, and liberated it's hide by myself, do you think they should have put that DISCLAIMER on their products page? |
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Way too many outfits are frightened to let this information out in the wild. Amazon still claims Free 2 day shipping with PRIME, ummm NOPE, it's seven business days for me if I sacrifice a printer or a calculator on the altar of the appropriate god. Supply chain interruptions are not going to get better as tensions escalate with China.
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