Ben's 4A-Ge Ae71

[B.L.Z.BUB]

Gonna keep the hurricanes or sell them to me?

[B-Lugg]

I'll be getting rid of them - you'll be the first to know...

[B-Lugg]

Just paid for some metal bars. I love rare shit.

Can't wait for them to get here!

[B.L.Z.BUB]

The ones I linked you????????????????????

[B-Lugg]

Yep! Just had to get the finances in order to grab them!

Going to look awesome!

[B.L.Z.BUB]

Freakin' sweet! Such a good score.

[B-Lugg]

Day off today - started attempting to clean up the MA wheels that I have - I've put in around 4 hours work in to them and made almost no progress.

 

Cleaning the inside of the barrels is near impossible - 30 years of break dust and crap is caked on and the face has the occaional spots that need 30 minutes of cleaning to remove a spot.

 

Is there a product that I could use other than heavy duty degreaser etc that would work better? Or could I have them blasted or would this damage the wheels?

[Mechanical Sympathy]

Head to Bunnings and get $30 worth of the sisal/buffing wheels and compounds they sell for metal polishing. Grab a $20 corded drill while you're there.

 

About 40 minutes work per wheel gets you this from this;

 

 

If you like, hit them with some 400 grit paper first, to get rid of the stubborn stains. But the sisal wheel really takes most gunk off.

 

In hindsight some 80-120 grit around the edges would've taken the harshness off that gutter rash but after a few pints I wasn't getting too fussy about them. Maybe if I ever strip the tyres off I'd give them another hit.

 

For the inside of the wheel I found a wire brush attachment cleaned them up but then it became too much like hard work for little gain.

Edited May 20, 2014 by Mechanical Sympathy

[B-Lugg]

My alternator is fried - https://www.youtube....h?v=4rEOrlM1Znw

 

I'll look in to those drill attachments - I've always done my polishing by hand with polishing steel wool!

I do want to get the inner barrels clean though. So far... Took bloody ages just to get to this.

 

5 minute test with steel wool and polish compound. Would definitely be easy with power tools involved.

Edited May 20, 2014 by B-Lugg

[Mechanical Sympathy]

Oh for sure - a sisal wheel would take all that off in a jiffy.

[Skellington]

Find a friend with a blasting cabinet. I de-greased pressure washed with heated gun, then blasted. Simple. Polishing from this state will work well too if fine sand is used. mine looked terrible when I started.

[B-Lugg]

Sisal + a quality cutting compound. I can't wait to see how they go when completely cut and polished.

 

 

Find a friend with a blasting cabinet. I de-greased pressure washed with heated gun, then blasted. Simple. Polishing from this state will work well too if fine sand is used. mine looked terrible when I started.

I'll post up on local forums to see if someone will lend me a hand for a six pack... Looks like it worked a treat. If not I'll just continue doing it manually.

Edited May 21, 2014 by B-Lugg

[Mechanical Sympathy]

That is indeed the shit.

 

Did you cut with Autosol? I hadn't considered that as I just got the Josco compounds.

 

Autosol certainly appears to be effective.

Edited May 21, 2014 by Mechanical Sympathy

[B-Lugg]

Autosol is great when it isn't on the built up stuff - you need to use a whole lot of it when doing so.

 

I switched to cutting with Kitten Cutting Compound, it's working an absolute treat!

[B-Lugg]

Looked pretty the other day.