From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Oct 08 2003 - 18:19:41 PDT
At 5:04 PM -0700 10/8/03, Paul A. Thomas wrote:
>A few months ago, the list was kind enough to steer me toward two
>manufacturers of sand blasting cabinets. I've put enough aside to
>actually order one now, and have decided on the Skat Blast units
>from TPTOOLS.COM... however I was out measuring the doors on my
>deuce and find they are 29" tall and probably 2.x inches deep. I
>was wondering if the height measurement in such cabinets was
>absolute, or if I might be able to work on the doors ( sans glass,
>etc ) if I put them in at an angle? Most of the mid size units (
>especially the ones which go on sale ) have a height limitation of
>28".
If they don't fit, get a good fine particle respirator and an
in-expensive siphon feed blaster. Those are good for small jobs. Get
some Dupont Starblast to clean up the metal. Its not too harsh and
feeds nicely through a siphon feed.
>o original condition as when the county FD was done altering it.
>However the engine just sucks. The plug wires were/are generic plug
>wires with 'LEE' press on nails.. er, wire caps on them. The wires
>have 4 or 5 thin silver strands of metal in the middle, which you
>splay out manually once you use pliers to clip on the end of the
>wire. I'm thinking I might get a little more power if I used good
>plug wires, but have no idea what the terminology is. Are they like
>speaker wires for a stereo? The gold wiring is better, the thicker
>the core the better? Or would you lose some power if the metal core
>was too wide as there was not enough power to push the amps or
>whatever? I don't want to go crazy thinking I have a 454 under the
>hood, but am hoping better plugs/harness and a good tuning can keep
>the engine from stalling when I try to reverse up the hill in my
>back yard.
Get Sparkplug wire from your local Auto Parts store. Its not speaker
wire, but I high voltage low corona wire of particular insulation.
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