NobleHops
Misfit
Injun, phocup, looking forward to working with you both, and I will do my level best to blow your minds when I do
. N.
Vapor blasting in bay area
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Injun, phocup, looking forward to working with you both, and I will do my level best to blow your minds when I do
. N.
NobleHops
Misfit
Here's what's new!
Two-cycle cylinder heads. This happens more often than you'd think: Guys bead blast their parts and then wish they had not. I can fix this but I sometimes spend a bunch of extra time cleaning because they don't mask and plug the parts as carefully as I do.
This was along the lines of a resurrection. I think this motorcycle was parked UNDER the barn:
Sure, we speak car!
Old trick parts:
8 Kawasaki engines? Sure, send 'em!
Two-cycle cylinder heads. This happens more often than you'd think: Guys bead blast their parts and then wish they had not. I can fix this but I sometimes spend a bunch of extra time cleaning because they don't mask and plug the parts as carefully as I do.
This was along the lines of a resurrection. I think this motorcycle was parked UNDER the barn:
Sure, we speak car!
Old trick parts:
8 Kawasaki engines? Sure, send 'em!
thenewwazoo
esculenta delicta
Nils, you're doing terrible things to my plans for a complete tear-down resto of my RVFlette.
NobleHops
Misfit
Haha! I'd say I'm sorry but that'd be BS. Besides, restraint is for pussies ;-).
Did I show you guys the Z1 I am restoring? We're in the deep end. Welcome
NobleHops
Misfit
Whoops, meant to include a link to the build thread:
http://kzrider.com/forum/11-projects/600077-the-friendship-bike-noblehops-restores-a-1975-z1
http://kzrider.com/forum/11-projects/600077-the-friendship-bike-noblehops-restores-a-1975-z1
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Grissom
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NobleHops
Misfit
Linky no worky for me
Hmmm. Hows this?
http://kzrider.com/forum/11-projects/600077-the-friendship-bike-noblehops-restores-a-1975-z1
Both links work for me
NobleHops
Misfit
Update time from RestoCycle! So on the other side of the shop we restore and build vintage and custom motorcycles, which is what led us into the vapor blasting work in the first place.
We recently finished a nut-and-bolt restoration of a 75 Kawasaki Z1-900 that was a total blast. This bike went down to itty bits, and was completely restored - including new transmission parts, bearings, clutch, honed for the high compression big-bore pistons it wears, and a brand new head with Kibblewhite valves, springs, keepers. Carbs were also rebuilt. The fork has RaceTech internals and new tubes, the rear some nice Ikon shocks and roller swingarm bearings, and everything else in between is new or was totally refurbished to as-new condition. There is fantastic reproduction parts support for these bikes, and that is where the signature 4-into-4 exhaust came from, along with the gorgeous bodywork, faithfully reproduced by craftsmen in Japan.
It was so fun to build this bike I bought another and it is awaiting its turn.
Where we started. It was a lot worse than it looked at this point.
Torn down, frame powdercoated, up on its stand and about to get reassembled.
Fork apart, waiting for parts from RaceTech, and installation of new springs and gold valves.
Wheels about to be relaced, new spokes, strips, and bearings. Hubs freshly vapor blasted.
New wiring harness, into replated brackets. All the wiring was carefully renewed, cleaned, retaped, made perfect.
Engine torn down to little bits: We found pitting and worn valve guides so the head got totally redone, cylinders honed. Also found bad transmission parts and bearings, all repaired or replaced. Oil pump rebuilt, clutch hub bearing, springs, discs replaced. Many new cam chain tensioner parts. This beast is actually a 1075 and has high-compression pistons to boot. It boogies.
My brother could not resist the urge to port it, "just a little". Ok, ok.
We replated and reused all the original fasteners.
The entire engine was of course vapor blasted and looks new.
The build - so many details!
And done. Took it out for a maiden cruise a week or so ago, and it is running great, is a total blast to ride. Will deliver this to my friend/customer in Switzerland in the spring, just as their riding season gets started. This bike will be ridden and loved.
We have more projects and news to share, coming soon. Thanks for checking in.
We recently finished a nut-and-bolt restoration of a 75 Kawasaki Z1-900 that was a total blast. This bike went down to itty bits, and was completely restored - including new transmission parts, bearings, clutch, honed for the high compression big-bore pistons it wears, and a brand new head with Kibblewhite valves, springs, keepers. Carbs were also rebuilt. The fork has RaceTech internals and new tubes, the rear some nice Ikon shocks and roller swingarm bearings, and everything else in between is new or was totally refurbished to as-new condition. There is fantastic reproduction parts support for these bikes, and that is where the signature 4-into-4 exhaust came from, along with the gorgeous bodywork, faithfully reproduced by craftsmen in Japan.
It was so fun to build this bike I bought another and it is awaiting its turn
. Where we started. It was a lot worse than it looked at this point.
Torn down, frame powdercoated, up on its stand and about to get reassembled.
Fork apart, waiting for parts from RaceTech, and installation of new springs and gold valves.
Wheels about to be relaced, new spokes, strips, and bearings. Hubs freshly vapor blasted.
New wiring harness, into replated brackets. All the wiring was carefully renewed, cleaned, retaped, made perfect.
Engine torn down to little bits: We found pitting and worn valve guides so the head got totally redone, cylinders honed. Also found bad transmission parts and bearings, all repaired or replaced. Oil pump rebuilt, clutch hub bearing, springs, discs replaced. Many new cam chain tensioner parts. This beast is actually a 1075 and has high-compression pistons to boot. It boogies
.
My brother could not resist the urge to port it, "just a little". Ok, ok.
We replated and reused all the original fasteners.
The entire engine was of course vapor blasted and looks new.
The build - so many details!
And done. Took it out for a maiden cruise a week or so ago, and it is running great, is a total blast to ride. Will deliver this to my friend/customer in Switzerland in the spring, just as their riding season gets started. This bike will be ridden and loved.
We have more projects and news to share, coming soon. Thanks for checking in.
Tim-That CX Guy
Resident Window Licker
This has almost become a commercial, but I'm going to address the original question of local vapor blasting.
Larry Cargill in Sacramento has added a vapor blasting machine to his restoration arsenal for those who don't mind a drive up north.
Larry Cargill in Sacramento has added a vapor blasting machine to his restoration arsenal for those who don't mind a drive up north.
NobleHops
Misfit
Let's talk about wheels - we have been doing some interesting wheel projects mixed in with everything else.
We are restoring a 1981 Honda CB750F on the other side of the shop and those normally wear skinny Comstars stock. Those are OK but my customer wanted to do something a little more custom so we hunted up a set of 1100F wheels, plus an 1100F swingarm and front axle and put that all together (with help as always from Dave). But they were a little tired-looking, so a quick trip through the vapor blaster for cleaning and to roughen the surface in preparation for paint was called for.
We pulled the rotors off and sent them off to TrueDisk for grinding and drilling.
Then we masked them up for repainting, using the truing/balancing stand to hold them as we worked. Note that we did not remove the factory paint, it was stuck down there quite well, we just cleaned it and degreased it and painted over it. Worked great, saved steps.
Then we masked up the balance stand, brought it into the spray booth, and painted them.
Finally a new set of bearings and spacers were installed, you know, WHILE WE WERE THERE, and of course new tires and stems, slightly wider doe to the wider wheels. Bueno. This all worked really well. The wheels and rotors look new, and were easier to prep and paint because they were spotless including in all the crannies and crevices.
Last week a customer bought a set of vintage Lester mags for a custom SOHC bike he is building. These Lesters were in great condition, straight with pretty much zero in the way of dings or flaws, but the paint and the aluminum was tired-looking. He's a big fan of the vapor blast finish as is, and so the project was to strip the original paint all the way off, and then clearcoat them. So that's what we did.
The patient(s):
We vapor blasted them, stripping the paint in the process:
Then these got sprayed with Eastwood's Diamond Clear. This photo is actually a test wheel from a Yamaha that we were playing with - we shot clear on one side and matte on the other, and the consensus was that the glossy clear over the satin vapor blast finish was gorgeous.
Presto: They look fantastic.
We did the brake panel and sprocket carrier while we had them, and also blasted his brake rotors, which are also getting cleared on their centers. Check out the brake shoes too, put those babies right back in that wheel.
Rotors before and after:
Happy wheels!
We are restoring a 1981 Honda CB750F on the other side of the shop and those normally wear skinny Comstars stock. Those are OK but my customer wanted to do something a little more custom so we hunted up a set of 1100F wheels, plus an 1100F swingarm and front axle and put that all together (with help as always from Dave). But they were a little tired-looking, so a quick trip through the vapor blaster for cleaning and to roughen the surface in preparation for paint was called for.
We pulled the rotors off and sent them off to TrueDisk for grinding and drilling.
Then we masked them up for repainting, using the truing/balancing stand to hold them as we worked. Note that we did not remove the factory paint, it was stuck down there quite well, we just cleaned it and degreased it and painted over it. Worked great, saved steps.
Then we masked up the balance stand, brought it into the spray booth, and painted them.
Finally a new set of bearings and spacers were installed, you know, WHILE WE WERE THERE, and of course new tires and stems, slightly wider doe to the wider wheels. Bueno. This all worked really well. The wheels and rotors look new, and were easier to prep and paint because they were spotless including in all the crannies and crevices.
Last week a customer bought a set of vintage Lester mags for a custom SOHC bike he is building. These Lesters were in great condition, straight with pretty much zero in the way of dings or flaws, but the paint and the aluminum was tired-looking. He's a big fan of the vapor blast finish as is, and so the project was to strip the original paint all the way off, and then clearcoat them. So that's what we did.
The patient(s):
We vapor blasted them, stripping the paint in the process:
Then these got sprayed with Eastwood's Diamond Clear. This photo is actually a test wheel from a Yamaha that we were playing with - we shot clear on one side and matte on the other, and the consensus was that the glossy clear over the satin vapor blast finish was gorgeous.
Presto: They look fantastic.
We did the brake panel and sprocket carrier while we had them, and also blasted his brake rotors, which are also getting cleared on their centers. Check out the brake shoes too, put those babies right back in that wheel.
Rotors before and after:
Happy wheels!
NobleHops
Misfit
HEY Eric! Thanks man!
NobleHops
Misfit
Free Shipping on Vapor Blast Projects by RestoCycle!
Excited to announce some news for the new year that we have been hatching for a little while.
FREE SHIPPING ON VAPOR BLAST PROJECTS BY RESTOCYCLE!
Effective 1/1/2017 RestoCycle is now offering free return shipping to our vapor blast customers for their projects, as well as deeply discounted inbound shipping. We would not be able to do this without the support of our shipping partner UPS, as they have extended additional discounts to us in order to make this possible.
Here's how this works:
Visit our website to get an idea of what your project might cost by viewing the representative projects gallery, or better yet, complete the online ordering form and request a quote. You can easily upload photos of your project right there on the form and we will get right back to you with a firm quote.
On the order form, include the weight and dimensions of your box(es). We will use that to generate inbound shipping labels that we will email to you, which will cost about half of retail shipping costs at places like the UPS Store, or PakMail.
Print and tape the label to your (well packed) box and drop it at any nearby UPS Store or depot for free. The closest drop off locations will be in the instructions on your label.
We will bill you at cost for the inbound shipment, along with the charges for your project when it is complete, via an emailed invoice. Click right in the emailed invoice to pay online with a credit card, and your parts (and shipment tracking info) will be on their way back to you just a few days after we get them.
Click here to see a gallery of representative projects and their pricing: http://www.restocycle.com/what-does-vapor-blasting-cost
Click here to request a quote on a vapor blasting project: http://www.restocycle.com/vapor-blasting-order-form
THANK YOU ALL for your support of our business these past two years. Your support and the great feedback we have received along the way has been fantastic, and we are very excited to be able to offer this to you moving forward. Please be in touch anytime with questions or comments, we're always glad to hear from you.
Sincerely,
Nils Menten
RestoCycle LLC
Tucson, Arizona, USA
nils@restocycle.com
http://www.restocycle.com
(520) 308-3705
Excited to announce some news for the new year that we have been hatching for a little while.
FREE SHIPPING ON VAPOR BLAST PROJECTS BY RESTOCYCLE!
Effective 1/1/2017 RestoCycle is now offering free return shipping to our vapor blast customers for their projects, as well as deeply discounted inbound shipping. We would not be able to do this without the support of our shipping partner UPS, as they have extended additional discounts to us in order to make this possible.
Here's how this works:
Visit our website to get an idea of what your project might cost by viewing the representative projects gallery, or better yet, complete the online ordering form and request a quote. You can easily upload photos of your project right there on the form and we will get right back to you with a firm quote.
On the order form, include the weight and dimensions of your box(es). We will use that to generate inbound shipping labels that we will email to you, which will cost about half of retail shipping costs at places like the UPS Store, or PakMail.
Print and tape the label to your (well packed) box and drop it at any nearby UPS Store or depot for free. The closest drop off locations will be in the instructions on your label.
We will bill you at cost for the inbound shipment, along with the charges for your project when it is complete, via an emailed invoice. Click right in the emailed invoice to pay online with a credit card, and your parts (and shipment tracking info) will be on their way back to you just a few days after we get them.
Click here to see a gallery of representative projects and their pricing: http://www.restocycle.com/what-does-vapor-blasting-cost
Click here to request a quote on a vapor blasting project: http://www.restocycle.com/vapor-blasting-order-form
THANK YOU ALL for your support of our business these past two years. Your support and the great feedback we have received along the way has been fantastic, and we are very excited to be able to offer this to you moving forward. Please be in touch anytime with questions or comments, we're always glad to hear from you.
Sincerely,
Nils Menten
RestoCycle LLC
Tucson, Arizona, USA
nils@restocycle.com
http://www.restocycle.com
(520) 308-3705