Ahoy there Gents,
Tended to the bead blasting today...
Here's a couple shots all masked off & plugged up. I turned a couple plugs out of some delrin rod, one to stop off the muzzle and and another to fit the forcing cone wedged in place against the recoil shield. Also put a sleeve of shrink tube over the yoke barrel.
And the starboard side.
I used straight number 10 glass beads which are 100-170 mesh size in a Paasche hopper gun at 60 psi.
Only took perhaps 30 minute to do everything. Still, I don't particularly care to blast stuff in the open, it makes a big mess. I have a good size patch of the gravel drive that looks like fresh snow
Anyway I think the finish came out pretty nice.
Here's all the bits right after cleanup.
A closeup of the spot where the cylinder was smackin' the frame.
While you can still just make out where the dings were, I think it cleaned up pretty well.
The area of the backstrap that was all chewed up.
Seems I need to put this back together
Training day tomorrow... Squats, press & deadlift so... I'll probably get after this on Thursday. Until then...
Cheers
Bill