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--------------4673FBD15BA03DB6C5037727 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Brian Fairbanks schrieb: > Hey guys, I am looking for suggestions on how to get small deposits > of rust removed from the bottom of my 104's. Today I tumbled them and > am happy with the results to the cylinder walls. The bottom is pretty > much untouched though. There are a few dime size patches I need to > clean off from the bottom. Any Ideas? My first thought was to elevate > one side of the tumbler. I have since forgot about that idea due to > the weight of the tumbler. It has to be around 2000 lbs if not more. > I could break some of the rust loose with a dentist tool on a long > handle, but that won't do it as complete as I would like. I really > don't want to fill the tank up too much with the pellets because the > cylinder gets so heavy and because I don't want to remove any more > from the walls....Just the bottom. Suggestions appreciated. Brian > > hi brian, > > we had the same problem (now we have a tumbler that can be > "elevated"..) and did some smooth sandblasting through the neck > straight to the bottom - so it did not affect the walls.Worked great. > > > > achim > > > > > > "Wilderness is not a luxury, but a necessity of the human > spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A > civilization which destorys what little remains of the wild, the > spare, the original, is cutting itself off from the origins and > betraying the principle of civilization itself." > > > Edward Abby - Desert Solitaire > --------------4673FBD15BA03DB6C5037727 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <P>Brian Fairbanks schrieb: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <FONT FACE="Fixedsys"><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE=-1>Hey guys, I am looking for suggestions on how to get small deposits of rust removed from the bottom of my 104's. Today I tumbled them and am happy with the results to the cylinder walls. The bottom is pretty much untouched though. There are a few dime size patches I need to clean off from the bottom. Any Ideas?</FONT></FONT></FONT> <FONT FACE="Fixedsys"><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE=-1>My first thought was to elevate one side of the tumbler. I have since forgot about that idea due to the weight of the tumbler. It has to be around 2000 lbs if not more. I could break some of the rust loose with a dentist tool on a long handle, but that won't do it as complete as I would like.</FONT></FONT></FONT> <FONT FACE="Fixedsys"><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE=-1>I really don't want to fill the tank up too much with the pellets because the cylinder gets so heavy and because I don't want to remove any more from the walls....Just the bottom.</FONT></FONT></FONT> <FONT FACE="Fixedsys"><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE=-1>Suggestions appreciated.</FONT></FONT></FONT> <FONT FACE="Fixedsys"><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE=-1>Brian</FONT></FONT></FONT> <P><FONT FACE="Fixedsys"><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE=-1>hi brian,</FONT></FONT></FONT> <P><FONT FACE="Fixedsys"><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE=-1>we had the same problem (now we have a tumbler that can be "elevated"..) and did some smooth sandblasting through the neck straight to the bottom - so it did not affect the walls.Worked great.</FONT></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE><FONT FACE="Fixedsys"><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE=-1></FONT></FONT></FONT> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <P><FONT FACE="Fixedsys"><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE=-1>achim</FONT></FONT></FONT> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <FONT FACE="Fixedsys"><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE=-1>"Wilderness is not a luxury, but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destorys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from the origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself."</FONT></FONT></FONT> <BR><FONT FACE="Fixedsys"><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE=-1> &n bsp; &nbs p; &n bsp; &nbs p; &n bsp; &nbs p; &n bsp; ! ; & nbsp; &nb sp; ; & nbsp; &nb sp; ; & nbsp; &nb sp; ; & nbsp; &nb sp; ; ! &n bsp; &nbs p; &n bsp; &nbs p; &n bsp; Edward Abby - Desert Solitaire</FONT></FONT></FONT> <BR> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML> --------------4673FBD15BA03DB6C5037727--
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