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I yield to the gentleman from the Lone Star State.

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so it was out with the fake blue moon rocks and time to try a 3rd type of media, no idea what this is, it came with the FREE blasting cabinet I got

FYI: I vacuumed out all the dust because I couldn't take off the blue plastic container cause the stupid walnut shells got stuck in the plastic wingnut and jammed the threads, design failure!

Note: the blue rocks tumbled the loudest this black metal looking shavings stuff is much more quiet

... see you all in a couple of hours ;-)

Re: A '54 named Busty
 

Guy across the street just put one of those hotel type through the wall units in his garage so he can work on his 64 F#^!

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... two hours later, more disappointing results

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I've got a tumbler from HF that I've used with various media. Black Beauty from Tractor Supply seems to do a little better job, but the blast cabinet with glass beads does a great job of getting rid of the rust, paint and scale, but then as stated before they are "RAW" steel and you have to do something with them. I've painted them on the Cherokee, and will again on the trucks.

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I use evaporust from cardboard freight. I found an old 8M FARM TRUCK tag in the dirt at my honey hole, probbably been there 40-50 years, evaporust showed me there was still white paint on the tag with blue paint on the letters, I took before and after pictures, I will find them.

I used it on some gmc head bolts that sat in a truck with no hood and no valve cover and they look like brand new bolts from the foundry, no kidding!

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yup, I tried it, and I swear they must have a different formula for California cause I did not have the same luck as you, it would not remove a bugger off a finger, what I've been using is that Phosphoric acid from Home Depot, I don't know why I haven't thunk to dunk the nuts and bolts in it till now, LOL

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ok this is like 6 or 7 hours later, I honestly don't know what to think, as this is after three days of tumping close to 30 hours (sorry neighboors)

the reason I spread them out into two batches is because I only care about the grille metal screws on the left, I don't care about the nuts, bolts, and washers on the right, I plan on using nice brand new black 5/16th body bolts where they went

but the grille on the '54 is the purdiest thing since pig tailed Bonnie in 4th grade, so I am geeking out on it, hope you understand - I think I may be short a few screws, ha ha, so if you gots some rusty ones and those U clips I'll gladly buy them off you, please PM me (I don't like the new versions of 'em)

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so while the tumbler was a tumblin' I was busy myself, though I was supposed to rest my arm

anywho first I wire wheeled them chop sticks that hold the truck to the fenders - please try to hold back your excitement

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~ WARNING ~

If you are not passionate about headlights and headlight accessories, you may want to skip the next 73 pages! LOL

Re: A '54 named Busty
 

it appears they used much different zip ties back in '54

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gently remove the conduit woven out of only the finest asbestos, don't forget to savor the aroma

Re: A '54 named Busty
 

this

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on to the Wire Wheel Of Fortune

oh, almost forgot, original piece is on the left, the one already wire wheeled is on the right, (whaaa haa ha)

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remember we are not going for perfection since we are going to hit it with some acid next

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ah, a reminder of the good ol' days, when things was made in 'merica...

... by immigrants! hee hee

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this is 3 days of soaking

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This is brilliant.

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Dunno, bro. Those NBWs (nuts bolts washers) look ok for a fire-and-forget process. Clean enough to paint with Rustoleum after degreasing.

Also, you mentioned that the propane didn't get hot enough for you. You can try MAP gas for the same bernz-o-matic torch. I think it's in yellow bottles. I have both and will try the MAP if I remember and get the chance. I gotta find something I can try to turn red-hot. Maybe on the neighbor's car, but he's home alot now.

Re: A '54 named Busty
 

Love the work on the headlights. Those are looking good.

I tried Evaporust and it didn't work well for me.

Hope your arm gets better soon so you can use it and make some real progress! Really, you are moving along very quickly.

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that's Awesome!

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Turns out the torch makes all the difference please watch this video:

MAPP Gas or Propane - Bernzomatic TS8000 Torch Kit

I just ordered mine on Amazon!

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very pleased with the way the headlight bits are cleaning up, I hit these with a wire brush after I took this pic and got rid of all the remaining hard to reach rust

Fun Level: 0

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today I forced myself to tie up all the loose ends and get every part of the front end primered that was going to get eventually painted satin black

as far as the different colors of primer, the gray stuff will be visible like the grille, the brown stuff will not

I went this route because I already primed and painted some grille pieces this way and I wanted to repeat the process the same way for the remaining external pieces increasing their chances to match

yeah now I realize no one will see those headlight buckets, LOL

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yup, this process was un ending