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Subject:Re: Heads - Argh! Here we go again....
From:Al and Sue Brase
Date:Wed, 17 Nov 2004 23:57:04 -0600

Actually, I wash them off really well with a solvent parts washer. Then
I take them over to my friend's restoration shop and use his air and
glass beads. Back at my shop, I just blast them off with air, they are
clean enough for the JB weld. All the ones I've done so far were
relatively low miles, < 110k miles, so I didn't bother to do anything
about the guides or seats. Both have been good so far, one at over 50k
miles now.
Al Brase

Rocket J Squirrel wrote:

> Al and Sue Brase wrote:
>
>>     Just glass bead the pits and fill with JB Weld!
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>
>
> Hey Al,
>
> Do you do your own glass bead blasting or take 'em to a shop? Is it
> necessary to mask off all the places you don't want bead blasted or just
> hand them over to the shop's hominids and take what comes back?
>
>> --
>> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
>> 84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
>> KG6RCR
>> -=-=-
>> Actual Test Answers Music Teachers Have Recieved, #25:
>>  Anyone who can read all the instrument notes at the same time
>>  gets to be the conductor.
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