A forum for stories, pics and updates of your resto's. Be it a barn find, Grampas hand me down or a bike being brought back to it's former glory.If you are restoring it, show us your stuff!
The problem for me is the language barriers.
Even if i can write and understand English quite well, my problem is that, when you guys express yourself here in terms that is for me a little bit tricky to understand, that is where the barriers comes in. But, i know what you mean for about 90% so
Painted the radiator today, included all the stuffs mounted on it. Bought two windshields from an -77 that i will paint in the same colour as the rest of the bike. Mine was rusty so.
DocRoot wrote:Did you do your own soda blasting? Please show us your rig.
Yepp. I blastered it my self. Quite fun actually. But, everyting gets white around you.
I have an air compressor with a large engine and a tank of 11,35 gallon dry vol. 50 litre.
And this sandblaster pistol:
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It is a little bit hard to get the suction from the bucket with soda, if it is a little moisture in the air. Best is to have a separator who dries the air. Hope you know what i mean?
Other, it works fine. Just be careful with painted areas. It is fine to blaster them at a larger distans if you just want to clean them up.
DocRoot, if you happened to be interested in a "kit", Eastwood offers a blast out of a bucket kit. Looks like you need 7 cfm at 90 psi.
As Mike says, you need a big compressor to make them work. I have a couple of Eastwood blasters...one is a 50 pound abrasive, and the other is a 100 pound Soda. Now I need to get a bigger compressor!
Yepp. As wingrider says, you need a strong compressor. Mine is a v-twin engine and you need 8bar to get it work. And much much of air. 412 litre per minute, mine has. Less than that the blastpressure will be to low. It will work but.....
Just stuck the tube in to the soda. But. Not to hard an deep, because the soda gets stuck in the tube. Try to just let it be at the surface an inch in or so.