just did this was stained pretty bad.
Stop in for a cup of coffee
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Unconventional
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Good morning. I received a cute little "I Voted" email photo from one of my old desert homies, but I think it's a little to risqué to post 
That desert sun, I tell ya, it cooks your brain
That desert sun, I tell ya, it cooks your brain
Basically need them for ID tags on the old autolights I am doing. I want to re do the tags no way if they are mounted on. Those rivets are pretty much a one time use.
Well compared to what I bought it for ($42), $100 to finish is far about the worth of the part.
zkx14
Duster De-ruster
I bought them from them already for putting National Board plate back on a mixing tank I cleaned up at last job.
I need a few different sizes the sun equipment uses some also. Tell you what I have been doing a lot of riveting lately dam dual points the grounds are always broken had to make a tool up yo do them. That took a few beers!
Hey TMM
Zinc Plating with Common Materials
I got one of those and a radio support bracket to clean up also. Buddy has some wheel bright, an acid you spray on and sit for a couple minutes then wash off. Said it worked great on aluminum wheels. Might try it.
Agree. I only tried to take them out in one piece so I didn't have to drill the ones in blind holes.
Just posted a link, really simple but I have a adjustable power supply I use. You can pretty much buy the ingredients at the supermarket for the solution, just need Zinc, I just buy ingots and drill a hole in them they last a long time. And you can use like a cell phone charger .3 amps per square inch. so a 500 MA supply is fine unless you do a lot of stuff at once. You want that one done no sweat send it to me I do it every few days, just pay the rides.
Zinc wont stick to brass or aluminum or pot metal. Great for vac advances I did a prestolight housing for a guy came out really nice and it does not flake off like chrome does. Just have to buff it out after plating it.
Well I'm not sure what type metal the ash tray is?? I'm talking about the piece on the left....this is the one I bought. The other one on the right we're painting
Hell yeah I can make that look new.
Unconventional
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We had an underground diesel tank at the hot plant 20K gallons. The tank tester guy shows up to do his annual test. His test was inconclusive, could not tell if it was or was not leaking. County says uncover it. So we do. When we get it uncovered we find no wet spots, however we find that some time in the 20 years it had been there they had probably driven a loaded Euclid over it and bent the top of the tank a substantial amount. Our engineer has kittens right on the spot. "We've got to go above ground!" . Got that installed, got the old one out of the ground. Life is good. With the removal the county mandated soil tests 2 years after the tank is gone. Here comes the soil guys with their boring/testing machine. County inspector wants them to angle drill under my shop/switchroom to test. Soil guy does so DIRECTLY under one of my 3 transformer holding power poles at the county guy's insistence. Busy making blacktop we hear a loud CRACK and the plant stops instantly. Undermined the pole, pole drops, cross braces on the poles splinter, one phase breaks off the transformer on the plant side. County inspector flees the scene. Soil guy's boring bit is trapped under the pole. Took PG&E the rest of the day to extricate the boring machine. They were not happy, neither were we. Love those APCD guys
hmm i kind of like this one...
or this one:
How long would it take??
That attached to a painted panel?
zkx14
Duster De-ruster
Some people just like to prove how f'k'n dumb they can be.We had an underground diesel tank at the hot plant 20K gallons. The tank tester guy shows up to do his annual test. His test was inconclusive, could not tell if it was or was not leaking. County says uncover it. So we do. When we get it uncovered we find no wet spots, however we find that some time in the 20 years it had been there they had probably driven a loaded Euclid over it and bent the top of the tank a substantial amount. Our engineer has kittens right on the spot. "We've got to go above ground!" . Got that installed, got the old one out of the ground. Life is good. With the removal the county mandated soil tests 2 years after the tank is gone. Here comes the soil guys with their boring/testing machine. County inspector wants them to angle drill under my shop/switchroom to test. Soil guy does so DIRECTLY under one of my 3 transformer holding power poles at the county guy's insistence. Busy making blacktop we hear a loud CRACK and the plant stops instantly. Undermined the pole, pole drops, cross braces on the poles splinter, one phase breaks off the transformer on the plant side. County inspector flees the scene. Soil guy's boring bit is trapped under the pole. Took PG&E the rest of the day to extricate the boring machine. They were not happy, neither were we. Love those APCD guys
The one on the right?? It's just one piece, other side is painted.
One of the best I ever saw was when we were painting the ship, usually used rollers, but this new chief wanted us just to spray, OK he gets this sprayer that goes on top of a 55 gallon barrel of paint, ok cool. We were in Marseille France at the main naval base well he hooks up the air. Boom the freaking barrel exploded paint all over the place, cars, their ships etc. Well a ship has low pressure air 100 psi and high 2500 psi. Guess which one he hooked up to? Freaking funny as hell.
Prob cover it with silicone if it does not come apart easily.
zkx14
Duster De-ruster
Done. Less than 10 minutes in there. Could have actually been half that, but...
We have 6 machines. They break us into 4 lines by alphabet. I am in A-F. I was about 6 in line. Several more coming in right behind me, almost all in same line. Total 11 in my line. 1 in next. Nobody in 3rd and one in last.
Then the guy in front of me signs his name in wrong spot and the official had to go ask somebody what to do with it. LOL
Oops!
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