Just bought a die grinder on sale at Harbor Freight.....
The grinder, carrying case, chuck, grinding stones and sanding drums was a total of $20! I plan on starting the sanding/polishing of the intake manifold with it still on the car. I figure I can do about 75% of the work before I will have to remove it to do the final polishing. I'll just crank up the shop vac to catch all of the debris as I go.
Great buy sinewave
Help out the rest of us with some names/part numbers and such. I want to polish my valve cover and intake manifold this summer, and that $20 sander would save a ton of time over hand sanding. I don't have too much sanding experience, so your comments always help considerably.
-hype
Help out the rest of us with some names/part numbers and such. I want to polish my valve cover and intake manifold this summer, and that $20 sander would save a ton of time over hand sanding. I don't have too much sanding experience, so your comments always help considerably.-hype
Originally posted by sinewave
The grinder, carrying case, chuck, grinding stones and sanding drums was a total of $20! I plan on starting the sanding/polishing of the intake manifold with it still on the car. I figure I can do about 75% of the work before I will have to remove it to do the final polishing. I'll just crank up the shop vac to catch all of the debris as I go.
The grinder, carrying case, chuck, grinding stones and sanding drums was a total of $20! I plan on starting the sanding/polishing of the intake manifold with it still on the car. I figure I can do about 75% of the work before I will have to remove it to do the final polishing. I'll just crank up the shop vac to catch all of the debris as I go.
Keith, let me know when you'll do it. I want to stop by and have a look see. Another one of your tools I have the potential to "borrow"?
OMG...$20? Talk about a steal.
HOW ABOUT THIS
I was thinking about going a rough polish on mine and painting it metallic gold with engine enamel and i had this thought. Get one of those wires wheels that mount on drills and use that to polish it down to a decent smoothness and not that shiny then wipe it with like lacquer thinner to clean it good and take it off and put like 5+ coats of paint/primer/top coat. It would probably only take like 4 hours to do and i think it would look hot.
Originally posted by sinewave
The grinder, carrying case, chuck, grinding stones and sanding drums was a total of $20! I plan on starting the sanding/polishing of the intake manifold with it still on the car. I figure I can do about 75% of the work before I will have to remove it to do the final polishing. I'll just crank up the shop vac to catch all of the debris as I go.
The grinder, carrying case, chuck, grinding stones and sanding drums was a total of $20! I plan on starting the sanding/polishing of the intake manifold with it still on the car. I figure I can do about 75% of the work before I will have to remove it to do the final polishing. I'll just crank up the shop vac to catch all of the debris as I go.
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