blasted, cleaned, studs installed

77 KZ1000 cases

Larry, is that soda blasted or glass bead blasted and did you spray them to seal them? thanks. tom

tomsbadkz wrote: Larry, is that soda blasted or glass bead blasted and did you spray them to seal them? thanks. tom

Glass. The don't need to be sealed.

Very nice looking Larry.

Very nice as usual. Some day i will ride down there and drop a bike off. sit at local still and drink till its done!

I'm doing this one by hand :pinch:

OMR did a nice job on his with nylon brushes and a drill. There's more than one way to accomplish any task

Here's the bottom end assembled.

Those parts look really good!

If its not a secret, what type/brand/size/mesh of bead are you using? I tried glass beads on a scrap piece of cast and it seemed to want to smear the aluminum around, if that makes sense. It came out clean but I didn't like that it was moving the aluminum around. I'm not sure what size the beads were, it was given to me in a coffee can to try out, but it sure looked very fine.

I have a bag of Clemtex glass bead size MS-MH that the guy gave me when I bought the cabinet from him (Econline) but I haven't opened the bag to see what it even looks like.

I just bought a few bags of 120 mesh garnet. So far loving it (clean, fast, very low dust) but not sure how it would be on aluminum. Thinking too aggressive.