Re: Just fore the fun of it:)
Back to waxing the carrot...I mean,polishing the pipes! The fun thing,so far, has been discovering all sorts of new stuff I never knew nor had reason to want to know. For example;I lately found out about a whole string of small muscles in my hands and wrists I never really knew about yet have been carrying them around pretty much since birth. Thanks to almost a weeks' worth of sanding these pipes, I now know of their existance along with their exact location!
I've also discovered that not all pipes are created equal.In fact, one of my pipes had a fair number of deep scratches on it.Probably from handling it on or off the delivery truck. This inspired a different approach to the polishing pleasures previously posted.Positively pickled, was I , for it was this new polishing position which lead to the new muscle discovery mentioned above.
Without going into too much detail, this pipe was hand sanded with the following before any rouge was applied.First with a medium weight emery paper,then a fine weight emery paper then successively followed with 120 wgt,180 wgt,220wgt,400 wgt and 600wgt wet/dry paper. I would be lying to you if I said it was fun. By the end of the day, my hands were black,my shirt was blacker and my thoughts toward that pipe,blacker still!
Thank God I don't do this for a living!
Here we see some blue buffing compound, the stuff that follows the green compound and what I thought was the final step until being informed that white compound is the new final step.(Thank you Eric D. for shortening my life span, if by only a few hours!)
And here we see the results of the blue stuff. Hard to pick up, really, just how nice it looks with this stupid camera.
If you look toward the far end, it really is very very shiny!
But if we look closely here, at the near end, there are still some very minor swirls on the surface.
Seeing these swirls, after almost going blind from the reflected light coming off the surface of the pipe, would have normally seen me reaching for something else to polish off(comes in glass bottles) while contemplating heaving myself off the nearest bridge. Fortunately,however, I was able to console myself with the thought that seeing how I've two rings to get welded onto these pipes and the welding will surely mess up the polished surface thus obliging me to polish it up in the vicinity of the welds, I'll save the final perfect mirror finish(with the white stuff) for later. That last bit of rationalization allowed me a nice untroubled sleep later that night with only my arms moving to and fro in a steady and familiar pattern. My gf hardly noticed!
Cheers!
Peter
Do it,do it,do it,do it,do it,do it,do it,now!
J.Lennon
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Re: Just fore the fun of it:)
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