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Reply #45 on: December 12, 2013, 02:43:22 am
Walnut shells work dandee as well ...... and it seems like those darn things NEVER wear out!

Ground walnut shells do a good job of cleaning, but leave a matte, almost bead-blasted finish, in my experience. If you really want your brass to sparkle and shine, you use corncob with 2-3 capfuls of brass polish worked into it.
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Reply #46 on: December 12, 2013, 04:27:02 am
I never thought of using corncobs to polish my brass.



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Reply #47 on: December 12, 2013, 04:45:10 am
  Or a  superstorm..... Or even a Zombie apocalypse !  This might beat fighting in gas lines for two weeks without electricity, so you can get heat to the house.  NOT fun .  Of course, you might be fighting in line with the Beavers ?!  But..... Ummmmmmm....... Winter project ?

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Reply #48 on: December 12, 2013, 01:13:33 pm
Ground walnut shells do a good job of cleaning, but leave a matte, almost bead-blasted finish, in my experience. If you really want your brass to sparkle and shine, you use corncob with 2-3 capfuls of brass polish worked into it.

You're exactly right ...... most of the stuff that I polish, I do by hand ..... motor-sickle parts are a little easier to do that to than shootin' iron parts - which tend to be a bit smaller! That matte finish is, however, PERFECT for fasteners and the like - and stuff to be painted .....
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Reply #49 on: December 12, 2013, 02:57:12 pm
I never thought of using corncobs to polish my brass.




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Reply #50 on: December 12, 2013, 03:09:35 pm
That is freaking awesome!  I downloaded the PDF immediately.   ;)

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Reply #51 on: December 12, 2013, 04:32:41 pm
Now to design the support bracketry ......  up high above the rear wheel of my B5 ?

I was thinking of in the bed of 4 cylinder pick up.  ;)

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Reply #52 on: December 12, 2013, 05:30:20 pm
God intended wood to power steam engines.  Oil was never a problem for Robert Fulton.  Oh, he lubed his engines animal fat and whale oil.  Bacon drippings smell way more better than whale oil and is legal too!  Yay Bacon!
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Reply #53 on: December 12, 2013, 05:31:55 pm
Now to design the support bracketry ......  up high above the rear wheel of my B5 ?



 
I was thinking of in the bed of 4 cylinder pick up.  ;)

Scottie



  I was thinking a duel purpose sidecar ?......  Where lunch could also be made? 

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Reply #54 on: December 12, 2013, 05:44:43 pm
Just drove in past the BBQ place down the street.  Between that aroma and the sausage side car pic, I'm hungry now.

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Reply #55 on: December 12, 2013, 11:42:47 pm
Gotta love the Coat of Arms low on the nose.  ;D
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