Recent content by tshrey

Anyone have a nice trick for getting rid of the 40 year old accumulation of aluminum oxide all over engine pieces? I'm soda blasting everything before powder coating it, but this stuff is tough, even glass bead blasting doesn't get rid of it all. I've resorted to gently scraping it off with a...

So I was too lazy to switch the cabinet over. Did a ghetto fabulous makeshift soda blaster out of a length of vinyl tubing and my air gun. At first I was shooting so much soda you couldn't see, so I pushed a bolt into the tubing to restrict the soda flow. It worked incredibly well. I did my...

As a trial I did the piston jugs. Taped the flat side opening off as well as the opening on the other side for the cam chain. No way the glass would get embedded in the piston sleeves. Came out nice, tape kept all the internal engine parts clean. The crusty white corrosion is that gets all...

Can anyone make a recommendation of what I should put in my blast cabinet to clean my head prior to powdercoating? I normally run glass beads in it because it cleans up aluminum without taking anything off, but I read that if you get in parts where oil flows the fractured beads can get embedded...