Nathans F15A Resto

[Nathan O'Malley]

Thanks for the advice fellas we will give that a go.

[Nathan O'Malley]

Was a busy weekend, got the cab right off now and chopped the abomination of a home made towbar off the truck.

with the cab off it was time to open the engine up and find out if it did indeed have a cracked sleeve as its previous owner had suggested, In a massive stroke of luck the only thing that is wrong with it is that it has spent too much time without an air cleaner on the carby and this has allowed water in to a couple of cylinders through open valves, still needs a clean up and a machinist over it but at least its not cracked!

[Nathan O'Malley]

okay long time between updates but I've had a few things happening brand new job on a huge solar farm project has me quite busy at the moment which is brilliant for Oddball because I've finally got a decent pay cheque to sink in to it

So a few things have been happening mainly in the field of sandblasting, I managed to find a good little sandblasting kit at the local Auto parts store which works on a siphon hose marry that up with some garnet and I was in business!

[Nathan O'Malley]

So ive been poking away with the sandblaster when I've had time doing a section and priming it.

Ive also robbed the dog of his outside hut as it makes a brilliant blasting booth he's not very impressed and took to sulking under the Blitz

so the loose rim is cleaned primed and the nuts painted up just waiting on the Khaki no.3 to arrive

[Nathan O'Malley]

I have also been on a bit of a parts hunt while I can.

New catches arrived today and the grill a little while ago just waiting for the engine cover to make its way over from Victoria just a bugger most of the components I need now are large making transport a bit difficult.

[Ken Smith]

Good day Nathan,
You have a nice little truck that has been reasonably well looked after.
I am very impressed with the sand blasting, would you mind saying where you got the sandblaster and what brand it is? if you don't want to put it on the forum would you mind sending me a pm.
Sand blasting of small items, well any item, is getting very expensive and I would like to get a small sand blasting setup that will work.
Ken

I bought 2 blasting kits not so long ago and neither of them are much good. I know a lot has to do with air supply though.

[Mike Cecil]

Hi Ken,

Not only air supply, but the gun and nozzle.

I purchased a cheap Chinese cabinet set-up that worked only so-so, then a friend put me onto a US-made gun with replaceable nozzle (either steel or ceramic) and a new 'anti-kink' pick-up hose. It now works really well for short sessions, and for long sessions so long as I keep the air supply dry. I have three small condensers and a condensing chamber in the line, and run the pipe from the compressor through a cold-water bath (5 gal bucket with ice bricks) on its way to the condenser. Works a treat at keeping the air dry over a prolonged period of blasting.

The mob I got the gun, etc from was TPT Tools:

http://www.tptools.com/Sandblast-Cab...-Supplies.html

Nathan: how do you catch the sand blasting medium for re-use?

Mike

[Nathan O'Malley]

Gday Ken

The blasting gun I'm using is a little $50 Blackridge kit that I found at Super Cheap Auto, I have it hooked up to a fairly substantial Clisby Air Compressor.