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01-24-2010, 08:48 PM

thanks guys, i worked on them a little bit this weekend. im pleased how to look so far. when im finished ill post up some before and afters.
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thanks guys, i worked on them a little bit this weekend. im pleased how to look so far. when im finished ill post up some before and afters.
You doing them by hand, or go with a DA?
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02-02-2010, 08:53 PM

by hand, they weren't in that bad of shape before i started, im in no rush though as its still 20 degrees out.
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that 20 degrees turns into 70 pretty quick if u dont keep on them tho lol
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true ^ still working on them though, just had the centers taken to get media blasted & bought new bolts.
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true ^ still working on them though, just had the centers taken to get media blasted & bought new bolts.
Who is doing the work, and how much is it going to cost you?
I'm going to be doing a set in the Spring and depending on the
price of media blasting I may pay to have the barrels and centers
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02-26-2010, 02:03 PM

I did something similar to my borbet type E's. I used the 3M blue discs to take off the clear, wet sanded by hand from 200 to 2000, then polished using red rouge then white rouge with a DA. Bought the rouge and polishing wheel through eastwood.com


Crappy cell phone pic of when I did them....


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Those borbets look great! nice work!
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I did something similar to my borbet type E's. I used the 3M blue discs to take off the clear, wet sanded by hand from 200 to 2000, then polished using red rouge then white rouge with a DA. Bought the rouge and polishing wheel through eastwood.com


Crappy cell phone pic of when I did them....
Looks good....Nice work.
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Who is doing the work, and how much is it going to cost you?
I'm going to be doing a set in the Spring and depending on the
price of media blasting I may pay to have the barrels and centers
done.
Blast off inc. on vulcan st. cost me 15 a center... came out great.

here is a quick mock up... not done yet but almost


Anyone know anyone/place that does good paint work? im looking to get the centers painted!
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