Having a blast
Armed with a mates sand blasting cabinet I try to make my RD look a bit less crusty Sand blasters are great at removing crusty old paint from bits and in doing so they also rough the surface up a bit which is good for paint adhesion. If I were to paint I would need to give everything a really good clean after blasting. Or, if you prefer bare metal, you get a nice satin finish which looks great on my stock top yolk. I only took some sandpaper to the old handle bar mount to give a little contrast. I did have the option of a soda blaster but I considered it too weak to be effective for this job. The heads and barrels were also pretty grotty and needed a good going over with the sand blaster. Unlike the top yolk, which was pretty straight forward, the fin of the heads and barrels were a right pain in the ass to blast. This was not helped by a number of factors: The sand blasting cabinates gloves were in poor shape with one palm almost completely missing. I did eventually get a ...