Done

Done

Coming Together

Coming Together

In Primer

In Primer

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Air line froze up

Got the blasting cabinate all put together and piped. Cranked up the compressor and blasted the headlight buckets. Worked great. Very quiet and no mess. Found some corroded holes in the aluminum buckets after all the crud was blasted off. Mixed up some good old liquid steel and filled the holes after I used blue masking tape as a backer. Worked out pretty good, and after a little sanding and a coat of grey primer you can hardly tell the repair.
Yesterday I got some grill pieces out of the garage and brought them in to sandblast. Guess what, The lines coming from the air compressor are frozen (should have blown the moisture out) so, no more blasting until we get a thaw. Lifes little uphill struggles. More Learning.
Have to go to Washington State for a few weeks, so maybe it will be warmer when I get back.
Looking at a set of gauges from Speedhut. The legacy series. The speedometer is a GPS unit which requires no hook-up to the transmission. We've gone from mechanical speedometers, to electronic, an now GPS. Thats the future.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Time to do a little winter work

Well, been sick with the flu the last week or so and almost back with the living.
After the fiasco with the sandblasting in my wood shop, I decided to bite the bullet and buy a blasting cabinate. Got one today from Harbor Freight (the other China Town) up in Cedar Rapids, along with some car dollies. I will use the dollies soon to be able to move the truck around easier in the shop.
I put the blasting cabinate together this afternoon and still need a few piping parts to get it going. I put it in my wood shop for now so I can work on parts in the warmth. This should also cut out the big mess I did with the blasting pot. Your never to old to learn.
Been contimplating new dash gauges and will get some advice/opinions from the Friday car guy gathering tomorrow,
5 degrees here this morning when I got up and never got above 16 today. How far away is Summer??? MOTHER OF PEARL, bring me some heat!!!!