Nice 20 minute walk to and from the local CALTEX to get essentials. Chocolates for her in doors. Fuses for the XF. And petrol for the lawn mower. Very pleasent out and lots of smiley faces,..
Nice 20 minute walk to and from the local CALTEX to get essentials. Chocolates for her in doors. Fuses for the XF. And petrol for the lawn mower. Very pleasent out and lots of smiley faces,..
Productive day again today.
Built up two of these workshop trolley seats we got on sale at Supercheap a few months ago, as chairside tables for the lounge.
Luckily my wife is more of a petrol head than me & was all about it.
Pulled the back wheel & rear guards off the Katana today to give everything a proper clean up.
Can't remember how this got inside the rear guard, looks like rubber & tyre cords.
I also needed four o rings for the needle valves, I found some unreinforced fuel line the correct thickness & pulled it over a piece of metal rod, & put it in the lathe, I then mounted a small sharp kitchen knife in the toolpost & had a few goes at different thickness cuts to see what worked.
Four cuts 50 thou apart & there were my new o rings.
I'm sure powdercoat is fine and all but where it gets chipped and gets water under in the chip it goes a bit scabby.
I waterblasted all the scabs off and gave it a quick sand so I could chuck some "Zinc It" on there. Basically I will spray it with the spray cans I have at home which means it won't get any worse. Eventually I guess I will have to get them dip stripped and probably HDG or zinc sprayed or something. I also have to do the trailer chassis as well. Maybe now's the time?
I can't believe how busy my days are (working from home is actually fucking working, it turns out).
near as I can tell this is 1mm mild steel. I dont think its been zinc sprayed or anything.
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
They had that issue with gas bottles so they are sprayed rather than powdercoated now, as before. The powder is not really the problem in itself. A lot of issues as ever are down to preparation to make a good key. Also the conversion process. On ally the yesteryear chromate conversion has been abandoned for RoHS friendly versions which require rigorous cleaning processes to be almost but not really as good as before.
I'm not as familiar with steel but is phosphate coated and probably affected the same way. A media blast will help adhesion I would venture.
I've been tiling only in the weekends, just no spare time. The dirtbike got some attention but I need an engine bolt to put it back together. Normally I'd see my local wrecker for a beer and a rummage (oh vicar). Have to wait. I have 3 candidates in my spares which are of course a cm or so too short.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
yes I saw that as I follow machine tools and parts and From memory it went for good coin but I was staggered a while ago one as good as Bobs with a heap of myford accessories went for 8k . they are a nice little lathe no doubt but I did think that was a bit over the top,
My brother had a powdercoating firm in ChCh some years back. He managed to get ISO accreditted to the standard required for Defence Force work. His comments at the time were to the effect that the coating was the least poart of it. About 90% preparation. Now that Trichlorethylene baths have gone it's somewhat harder.
I won't use powder on my frames. Saw too much corrosion under powder on speedway chassis. Still at least one mob in ChCh doing baked enamel at reasonable price.
HDC - Euroblast in Hornby do gritblasting at a reasonable price. I see they're now offering galvanising too. I've used them for years for frames. Blast and two pack prime. Good guys.
Side note, the premises my bro owned for the powdercoating business are now occupied my Mike Stein. Small world.
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
trying to figure that out now. It will sit on those ribbed rubber frame sleeve thingys as per period with two bolts through the back bottom ,using oem rubber mounts but the front is a bit more tricky . I am thinking about a rubber band but I am worried it may move around.
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