How to contact Chris?Originally Posted by 82DMC12
Posts: 34
How to contact Chris?
Location: Olathe, KS
Posts: 1,973
My VIN: 11596
That elbow is still available NOS (and with taper thread). I would get that NOS elbow and then get the flex line that replaces the hard line between the accumulator and the fuel filter like I did.
Andy Lien
VIN 11596 Jan 1982 build - owned since Nov. 2000!
Total frame-off restoration completed 2021-2023
Photography and Backpacking is life.
Was Fargo, ND
Now Kansas City
Posts: 1,645
I have the new braided flex line already I think.
I could always just blast and replate the stock fitting I suppose.
Sent from my SM-F926U1 using Tapatalk
Posts: 1,645
Finally started to get my heated parts cleaner/degreaser and vapor blaster set up at the shop (on the mezzanine)
Sent from my SM-F926U1 using Tapatalk
Posts: 1,645
The hose in the vapor blaster exits the pump pointing towards the operator but then takes a 90 degree turn towards the rear of the cabinet which has caused the hose to get kinked. I am going to cut back the hose and install a 3/4" brass street 90.
Sent from my SM-F926U1 using Tapatalk
Posts: 1,645
Got the vapor blaster set up, filled with water, and discovered a cracked bulkhead fitting. Pretty frustrating since this looks like it is epoxied onto the plastic cabinet. Luckily this fitting is usually at to water line. Also I put a hose clamp around the fitting which reduced it to a slow drip for now.
Sent from my SM-F926U1 using Tapatalk
Posts: 1,645
Checked around town for fine glass blasting media. All I could find is 80 GR at HF.
I was impatient and wanted to try thr thing out so I took the 80GR media out of my dry blaster figuring maybe it was so beat up at this point that maybe it was fine and not 80GR anymore.
Well unfortunately it was still to course. So I didn't get a nice semi-gloss finish. Instead the results on aluminum and brass pretty much looked like they did in my dry booth (go figure).
So the whole machine need to be drained, media removed, cleaned out. What a pain.
Sent from my SM-F926U1 using Tapatalk
Posts: 1,645
I had to order the media so no wet blasting for a while. Shifted focus to getting the new parts cleaner set up. I feel bad about the gross parts I am going to send through this thing. I think that the previous owner either never used it or just used it to final clean parts that had already been pre-cleaned.
Sent from my SM-F926U1 using Tapatalk
Posts: 1,645
Now that I got the correct grit media the vapor blaster is working awesome!!
I did have to take some media out though because I was getting media into the clean water system. Makes it really hard to see through thr window in the machine when slurry is spraying out of the window washer nozzles.
Sent from my SM-F926U1 using Tapatalk
Posts: 1,645
Tried my hand at plating parts again.
I am really getting frustrated and discouraged with this. It is very time consuming waiting for everything to get to temperature, prepping thr parts, hanging all the parts, figuring out the correct settings for the power source, trying to not breath in or get on you these nasty chemicals.
Kind of wishing we just sent our stuff out to be plated. I may still end up just doing that.
Sent from my SM-F926U1 using Tapatalk
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
