Re: '86 - Down the Rabbit Hole
Posted: 04:21 pm Mar 05 2019
Last weekend started some top-end assembly..
Because we are still waiting on a huge order of misc little motor internal parts i.e. bearings,
We'll do what we can to get some sub-assemblies ready for later.
Cleaning the KIPS valves and getting their associated parts ready took a good long time.
The stuff gets baked into those valves like nobody's business..
The POR-15 paint was a bit disappointing.
It flakes off in spots pretty easy.
It was done according to the directions - to the letter,
Stuff was prepped perfectly.
It just kind of sucks..
Look closely and you'll see a bunch of tiny touch-ups.
I will never use it again.
Don't let them sell you rattle-can as anything else but;
Rattle-can is still rattle-can.
Anyhow,
Using fresh fasteners and gaskets and all is just so satisfying..
These little rubber spacer plug things between the fins just wouldn't give up their dirt;
The mud had been baked on forevermore.
Finally it came to me to use hand cleaner, and let them soak in it overnight.
Also picked up the silver stuff from Grizzly Powder Coating here in Santa Cruz.
Brook puts a lot of these boys to shame with her work..
All of the tapped holes and places where things need to NOT have coating were masked perfectly.
Frame numbers nice and legible, she just nutted it.
Looks like some more assembly in our future.
Because we are still waiting on a huge order of misc little motor internal parts i.e. bearings,
We'll do what we can to get some sub-assemblies ready for later.
Cleaning the KIPS valves and getting their associated parts ready took a good long time.
The stuff gets baked into those valves like nobody's business..
The POR-15 paint was a bit disappointing.
It flakes off in spots pretty easy.
It was done according to the directions - to the letter,
Stuff was prepped perfectly.
It just kind of sucks..
Look closely and you'll see a bunch of tiny touch-ups.
I will never use it again.
Don't let them sell you rattle-can as anything else but;
Rattle-can is still rattle-can.
Anyhow,
Using fresh fasteners and gaskets and all is just so satisfying..
These little rubber spacer plug things between the fins just wouldn't give up their dirt;
The mud had been baked on forevermore.
Finally it came to me to use hand cleaner, and let them soak in it overnight.
Also picked up the silver stuff from Grizzly Powder Coating here in Santa Cruz.
Brook puts a lot of these boys to shame with her work..
All of the tapped holes and places where things need to NOT have coating were masked perfectly.
Frame numbers nice and legible, she just nutted it.
Looks like some more assembly in our future.