Another addition! Ambient Temp Gauge

[4shorts]

Thanks 4shorts and the same goes out to your boys!!

yep indeed your cab looks very warm.................hopefully this spring I can start building mine for the next season!!! I've already started gathering the materials! (steel, heater,weather striping, tubing, stereo.......) You gotta love Princess auto!!

I'm not as tough as you military people, I need warmth and a song playing to plow snow these days

Oh man that Princess Auto in something else. I could live there. You might say that I'm well known there I'll look forward to seeing the progress of your cab.

Really nice custom jobs you have done with that welding cart, tractor, and your motorcycle.

I really enjoyed the video of your motorcycle, just like the welding cart video from start to finish.

Looking forward to the forklift after it is finished.
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Glad you enjoyed the video's. I've been trying to put them together for a while now and it seems most enjoy seeing how I restore my old junk. In the last ten years I've restored so much stuff that I have 26.000 images on my computer. Yep. I snap photo's of all the stuff I do.

The fork lift is coming along very well. I looks much nicer than in the photo's I attached below It's now rebuilt and painted. Just the custom stuff to do with it next.

Dang Shorts, you done pimped your tractor.

Will it's sure starting to look that way for sure

 

[WaxMan]

I have that same sandblaster only in green, I haven't used it in 20 years ,
I used to own a body shop back in the 80's
Sandblasted all the time cars, scales, etc.
But i do remember it was pure **** sandblasting something that size. Sand in my ears (even with the hood) sand in my pants, my hair, my pockets.
But it does a good job. nothing like it.
Now I just have a little cabinet sandblaster for little things.
One thing I like to do with small parts is after sandblasting wash with soap and water and then paint the item, no primer, then I cook it either in a toaster oven that I have for that purpose or the heat gun, I heat it up to about 500 degrees for about ten minutes puts a hard scratch and chip free surface.
It only works good after sandblasting because of all the little pits the paint bites right in. Once cool I run it under cold water it's hard and dry and ready for use. That mirror bracket that you just painted I would of sandblasted it, then put a very thin coat of paint just to cover then heat it up, the paint shrinks and sinks into the sandblast pits and puts a nice slightly textured factory like hard finish. Actually works best with aluminum try it sometime.
My next project in my garage I want to build an exhaust hood over my welding bench , for welding and paint fumes to make life easier.

 

[Ductape]

I have that same sandblaster only in green, I haven't used it in 20 years ,
I used to own a body shop back in the 80's
Sandblasted all the time cars, scales, etc.
But i do remember it was pure **** sandblasting something that size. Sand in my ears (even with the hood) sand in my pants, my hair, my pockets.

Don't forget your bellybutton and butt ! I worked in a bodyshop in the 80s......

 

[mjncad]

So what's worse; Bondo dust in every nook and cranny of your body or sandblasting dust?

 

[4shorts]

So what's worse; Bondo dust in every nook and cranny of your body or sandblasting dust?

Guys when it comes to this restoration stuff and the tooling needed to do it safely I don't cut corners.

You'll notice in the photo's that I have a special sandblasting helmet on that's made by 3-M. It's hooked up to an ambient air blower in the shop that will pump fresh filtered air into the helmet plus it creates a positive pressure inside the helmet. There is NO dust that gets into the helmet at all.

As for the lift photo's. I never sandblast there in the open. This time I had to do it because the forklift was not running and pretty well dismantled at the time. I usually do my sandblasting in a container in another part of the property. It took the best part of the day to recover, clean that area and then it was all pressure washed down. Sometimes you got to do what you got to do to get'er done.

mjncad. I attached a couple of phot's of tools I made this past weekend. There two different size metal breaks. They work great and there strong. I built the big red press a few years ago. It's electric over hydraulic. There's also a photo of a tubing notcher I built and still use from a few years ago. I know you and WaxMan are extremely good at building stuff so I thought you might find it a little interesting.

As for the photo of me standing by the bead blaster. Have a look at what I'm holding. There's a story there as well

WaxMan I have baked some items in the past and your right, it works great. I've done it to motorcycle gas tanks after refinishing. I do all my bead blasting in a bead blaster that has it's own recycling and recovery system. Great unit and very efficient.

When it comes to the pressure blaster you see in the pictures. Well there's a bit of a story to that one and I mean that literally. I designed and built that one. It was featured in Welding, Design and Fabricating magazine in Cleveland a few years ago. This thing works better than good. I attached the story below to bore you with.

 

[4shorts]

Some more photo's for your viewing pleasure

 

[4shorts]

And a few more!

 

[tlbuser]

What do you guys think about soda blasting instead of sand? I've only seen the reults on one car, clearly no expert here. It seemed to work just as well for removal with no immediate need for paint or primers. No special handling , just hose it down and it's eco-friendlier

 

[4shorts]

What do you guys think about soda blasting instead of sand? I've only seen the reults on one car, clearly no expert here. It seemed to work just as well for removal with no immediate need for paint or primers. No special handling , just hose it down and it's eco-friendlier

I bet it's a good system. Larger than what I've been using. Would really like to try it sometime. Some good systems out there.

Soda Blaster Sales Official Website

 

[Ductape]

AND you restore Smith Millers too?