Started blasting the frame. Set up a plastic tent with a plastic pipe frame. Put a couple of pieces of panel board down for the floor and to make it easier to collect the blown sand. Works pretty well. Found out I can buy blasting sand at Huffmans Farm and Home for $5.50 a bag. That is much better than the dollar a pound stuff at other places. Works good for the frame. I think it will be too course for the cab and fenders. Will have to see about soda blasting those. Anyway, it is tedious, dirty and sand goes everywhere. I bundled up with my welding jacket and filter mask, then the hood. The plastic lens in the hood doesn't last too long with all the sand bouncing off it. I cut 4 more spares out of some left over stuff I had in the shop. The blasting will take a few days to finish and our yearly motorcycle ride will be upon us starting this Saturday. Rubber Toes and Two Gallon will ride up here to Wever fron Topeka on friday and we leave for a 10 state ride through the Smokies this year. Heading to the "Tail of the Dragon" in Deals Gap, North Carolina. This means no work on the F1 for about 2 weeks.
Oh well, it's not like it's a race. Who has more fun than me?
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