Is it my turn? Anything to do with lathes, mills and other shop tools

[Ratranger]

The light in my HF blasting cabinet sucks... always has.
Not anymore. Two LED fixtures from Amazon, 20 bucks. They're waterproof and made for outdoor use. Should work just fine in the cabinet, fingers crossed.

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I used LED light bars for a car. Cheap, waterproof, and the 12v power supply also runs the exhaust fan.

 

[Jim]

New gun feed hose... with internal springs to keep it from kinking/collapsing.
New gloves.
New glass and glass protector.
Works great now, and amazingly.... I can actually see what I'm blasting.

 

[MaxPete]

New gun feed hose... with internal springs to keep it from kinking/collapsing.
New gloves.
New glass and glass protector.
Works great now, and amazingly.... I can actually see what I'm blasting.

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I say @Jim:

That last photo looks like a dirt bike head or maybe the centre cylinder of a two-stroke triple....

N'est-ce pas?

Pete

 

[Jim]

N'est-ce pas?

Close. Baby RD.... RD200.

 

[MaxPete]

ahhhhh....a member of the venerable Yamaha ring-ding family.

 

[atom4488]

New gun feed hose... with internal springs to keep it from kinking/collapsing.
New gloves.
New glass and glass protector.
Works great now, and amazingly.... I can actually see what I'm blasting.

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@Jim, where do you source your blast cabinet gloves from? HF didn't have any last time I was there. Alternatives?

 

[kshansen]

Not sure if I already mentioned it but I had a RD200 many years ago. Well it was actually wife's bike. I took it out for a short ride and it started running bad and making some strange sounds. Forget if I made it home or had to call for wife to bring truck. Pulled it apart in side porch of the old farm house we rented. Found that the gear driving the oil injection pump had come loose/off. Rod bearings did not like that one bit! Tried to have crank rebuilt with new rods and bearings but dealer said not worth the effort and sold me a new crank/rods assembly for less than the cost to fix mine. A few nights work I had the engine back together and running. Then I sold it to a guy who had a RD400 he was trying to sell. Guy was somewhat of a used bike dealer on the side.

 

[Jim]

@Jim, where do you source your blast cabinet gloves from? HF didn't have any last time I was there. Alternatives?

Amazon. This is my second pair of these. Good gloves... better than the supplied HF gloves.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077YP72SP?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

 

[atom4488]

Amazon. This is my second pair of these. Good gloves... better than the supplied HF gloves.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077YP72SP?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

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Yup, looks like I can get near-identical gloves from amazon.ca...not sure why I didn't check there in the first place!