bead blasting is my new best friend *pics*
 

My uncle bought a bead blaster not to long ago to help in his restoration of old war planes. And I just happen to have a 63/60 thats going to be getting a rebuild real soon so i snagged the housings off of it and brought it out to the farm. Here is how they turned out, Im extremely happy. They almost look fake or like I painted them with cheap silver paint but thats bare metal. The bloxs manifold got the same bead blasting thand hit with some high temp black. I think Ill do the same with the turbo housings.
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http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-2/957082/bead3.JPG
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-2/957082/bead2.JPG

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bead blasting is so pimp! those look great, there's a guy on the neon boards who's offering to blast any part for 12 bucks apiece.

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very nice.

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I use them at work all the time and from time to time i sneak some of my parts in there as it is awesome how quick you can turn a beat up 20 year old part into something brandnew in a few minutes.Those housings look great. :y

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bead blasting aka SSauto rebuild. lol

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What era of planes? I've flown smaller planes before but that'd be awsome.

I've bead blasted all the compressor housings I've got laying around and it looks so much better w/a the years of crap cleaned off.

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Looking good! :)

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Awesome Aaron. How much did he pick it up for?

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can he bead blast my car for me? :P

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hook a nigga up!