Triple cranckcase is split - now what?

Looks excellent,now get those oil cooler couplings re zinc plated.The only downside of making the cases clean,is it shows up everything around it.I intend to have mine re-plated along with the hose ends,crankcase nuts,washers,etc etc.

If you don't mind me asking,what did the crank cost??

Jim.
 
ciscovalderama said:
Looks excellent,now get those oil cooler couplings re zinc plated.The only downside of making the cases clean,is it shows up everything around it.I intend to have mine re-plated along with the hose ends,crankcase nuts,washers,etc etc.
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Yep, that's the downside of starting something like this, once you start you basically have to do everything.  My first thought was also "oooh, get those hose connections replated Andy". :)  The original hose ends can also be replated without disturbing the hose.  Nice work.
 
Guys, can I pick your brains on the choice of soda.  I have a home built blast cabinet and wanted to try out soda, so bought a kg from the local supermarket and it was rubbish. Didn't matter if it was 50 or 150 psi - I just got no results??????
Is "industrial" media a bit stronger / thicker / harder than what you buy in the supermarkets for cleaning stuff?????
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Andy
 
I brought 50kg of food grade Bi-carb soda from a restaurant/kitchen supplier that worked a treat when I did my cases/ally parts. Used a cheap sand blasting gun.
Doubt that a blast cabinet will be of any use as you'll be doing it blind, as in a "white out" situation. My cases and barrels took about 20kg to do.
 
I tried soda in my blasting cabinet, worked quite ok at about 8 bar (115psi), but clogged the extractor filter in no time at all.  Means working in thick fog from then on.  The results were actually quite ok, not doing it again though... takes about 3 hours to clean out the mess properly, hammers home the reason why dedicated soda blasting equipment is available! :D

Also used food grade soda, don't think you will find any great differences between suppliers, etc.

piet
 
Hi Piet,

I simply took the airfilter off the cabinet and put a vacuum cleaner hose into the hole. Before I start blasting, I turn on the vacuum cleaner and off you go. If you use one that has a small slider in the handle of the hose that acts like a bypass valve, you can regulate how much vacuum goes into the cabinet. Really comfortable... you will need more soda as a fair bit gets sucked away by that method, but it really works well. ;)
 
ciscovalderama said:
Looks excellent,now get those oil cooler couplings re zinc plated.The only downside of making the cases clean,is it shows up everything around it.I intend to have mine re-plated along with the hose ends,crankcase nuts,washers,etc etc.
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Yes - that is now on my to-do list.  I plan to deliver a pile of fasteners to a local plater to get them freshened up.  Hadn't even considered doing the oil hose ends (until now...).
 
aebbern said:
Yes - that is now on my to-do list.  I plan to deliver a pile of fasteners to a local plater to get them freshened up.  Hadn't even considered doing the oil hose ends (until now...).
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If it all goes tits up when you remove them you can get the bits from a Hydraulics supplier like 'Pirtek' or similar.
 
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