JB's Blasting Cabinet mk2 now making mk3, other shed content!!!

Jb can u pt your mb no and what time is good to talk and ill explain my plating needs. Cheers Hugh. 

Very nice.

Have you done a similar thread about your zinc plating set up?

Definitely want to start doing this to all the parts on my car.

Cheers

Rich

well been playing around again this weekend with this,

the previous stuff was straight from the blaster, after talking to chrissy at UD he gave me some good tips

so after blasting you need to polish the surface up, i've done it with a bit of wire wool, just to take the matt finish off

the different in result was amazing

very gold, and nice and shiny



the parts that i had previously done got re blasted then polished



all in all very pleased with the finish of this now

Very nice JB.  

Very Nice! cant wait to get in the garage and start playing with mine!

Very very nice work. It's great when we can share the info and help others out.  

Hope to have a few small bits coming your way next week.

Can you do oil cooler pipe ends?

Nice job JB! Have you tried the 'post plate bright dip yet' ?

I've got the plating bug again too!!

Very nice Chrissy. Looks like you've got some competition JB

Chrissy is the zinc plating legend

I shall keep refining my skills  

Thanks JB

Shughy said

Can you do oil cooler pipe ends?

Should be no problem.

I bet you had to do an end at a time tho Chris?

Yeah you do they are fairly easy to do compared to the fuel lines as the metal braided part of the fuel line needs to be masked with duck tape to stop it from being plated too.

This is proper good! Whenever I do any blasting I always end up covered in it and spend the next 3 weeks finding it everywhere.

I'm going to try and buld myself something after seeing this. Cheers JB

Have you any info on the plating at all?

E

This is awesome Jelly

I will be sending you stuff when i start the re-build.

Good buddy

Cheers

Max

jellybelly said

so the work has begun

so tonight,

i've gaffa taped some clear asitate to the inside and outside of the lide, this is to help maintian the clearish finish as blasting will frost the perspexs very fast



then i got some p shap draft excluder to try to create a seal around the join between box and lid

also added the left over ribbon LED from the diorama around the lid



all lite up, should help me see in there



also alot of parts turned up today but i shall update once they start being fitted

Have made a similar cabinet and the best tip I got was to put 10 layers of catering cling film over the window BEFORE it gets used (even once!) as one layer clouds over rip it off for clear view. Don't forget to put more layers on before you contaminate the window material. Still working 12 years after build.

Nice little tip PeteB, simple but effective

been slowly doing bits on this small project

finally a machine mart vat free day came up, so i went and got the compressor that would A: Fit and B: Do what i need it to do

a clarke SE16C100 100 litre tank and 14 CFM belt drive so not to loud and just right for my blasting and airtools

in its new home



so after wondering why my plated parts were dull i had a chat with chrissy and thought a bit more

i decided to get rid of the old tank and make a new on up

the results were amazing, the shine was amazing and just what it should be. so i've been busy



next up more plating and a powdercoating machine in the next month or 2

Parts look perfect JB. Factory fresh!!

so pleased with the new parts, looks a million dollars

i was never 100% with the first batch of stuff, but the new batch is brilliant