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Polished the arrows on my S2R1000, documentary.


vw151

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So, as you can see in these first few pics, the pipes on my bike have gotten a little brown and nasty, which is a shame because they are a beautiful italian set of pipes, the cross connect alone is cool.

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So I took them over to Chris's and threw them in his tumbler. What a cool machine.

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After about 4 hours the pipes came out looking about like this,

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So after that it was time to take them home and polish them.

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Hmm, not for street use. shhhh

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Lots of strings

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like I said, the crossconnect is pretty

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Here are the tools I used

Palm Sander

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Dremel Multimax and sander I didn't picture the slightly soapy water

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drill and polishing attachment

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and of course the bench grinder with polishing wheels

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Tomorrow I am going to polish a little more and mount these up and watch them turn gold. Stay tuned.

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never seen something like that tumbler before, that is kind of cool. What all does Chris use that for?

to clean up freshly machined parts before anodizing I believe. He got the machine fairly cheap and is still experimenting with it. I can tell you one thing though, it's amazing at cleaning up pipes, as you can see. It even pretty much took the carbon out of the inside of the pipes.

It's basically the same sort of machine that people use to polish stones, it's just a really really big one.

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Got the pipes on the bike today, added less color than I thought initially, I'm sure as I ride they will get more golden.

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Yah, I made a video

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A little color after some idle

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Got back later in the evening and they were getting a bit golden.

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Very awesome man... Thanks for sharing... Seems like this could be used in a lot of different applications. Swingarms, forks, and anything else that got skunkie... Right?

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