Sandblasting, if you have the equipment, would be good. Or clean them up
with a wire cup brush. Then I'd spray on some LPS and wipe them down well.
That's the look I like best on old iron. Some people like the look of
Seymour Cast Blast. They think it looks real shop-like. It makes me think of
Al Babin. <g>
Yes, it's dangerous. Al's custom Babin-bot may spot it and start running ads
on RCM.
The way he paints his machines, the metal under those layers could be an
outboard motor and you'd think it was a Logan lathe. d8-)
I agree. I was over at the local sandblaster company - he does more
than that but that is the main line trade.
He was doing a massive (to what I tote around) manifold that had high
pressure hoses (cut off)... After sandblasting, he discovered a large
crack that was hidden under some rust and paint. It was in a funnel or
pressure increasing section - mud comes in at x psi and compresses down
to a smaller stream at Y psi. This was over pressured at one time.
The unit mixes several types of mud and send the result out.
The customer (several hundred miles away) - can you believe it - was alerted
and the transport truck took the completed job to be repaired, painted and
shipped by airfreight.
The customer had it delivered from a local site. He works days at a
MIL site doing what he does - fantastic painter.
Martin
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On 6/24/2010 2:25 PM, Ed Huntress wrote:
I cleaned up, and gave the little baby anvil by Enderes Tool, to my
kids. Since I have a 200 lbs anvil, I do not need this 75 lbs anvil
and I will sell it. It actually cleaned up very nicely.
i
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