Sandblasting

[sth65pac]

Keth
SPECTRUM Rubber Company in Dunheved, NSW has the nuts. 02 96235333 PM me if you want the part number.... about ??? cents each I think. They do mail order.

If you drill out the offending bolt with a slightly undersized drill and use a diamond point cold chisel to cut the remains of the bolt out then you will have a clean enough thread to use over. Easier than changing a captive nut.

Hows the FGT going???

Ian

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by sth65pac

Keth
SPECTRUM Rubber Company in Dunheved, NSW has the nuts. 02 96235333 PM me if you want the part number.... about ??? cents each I think. They do mail order.

If you drill out the offending bolt with a slightly undersized drill and use a diamond point cold chisel to cut the remains of the bolt out then you will have a clean enough thread to use over. Easier than changing a captive nut.

Hows the FGT going???

Ian

Thanks Ian

I'll try that although a lot of the caged nuts are fairly fragile and tend to punch the cage through.

I've been concentrating on the F15 so no progress on the GT yet. At least it runs and has great brakes.

[Jeff Gordon]

In desperation I bought myself a large petrol powered high pressure washer with sand injection at 1300 PSI. Works a treat and no dust. If you do it in an area where the sand can dry its even recyclable.
Don't forget you need to treat the resultant bare metal straight away with phosphoric acid or similar.
Graeme

Graeme what sand do you use? I have been using medium river sand after I have sieved it, however I am still concerned about the silica dust after the water has evaporated. Apart from that it is so fast and does not heat the metal.
Jeff