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Black Knight
ChadTower:
The topside of the flipper area is now stripped... metal parts are all in a parts tumbler with corn cob and some polish. This is my first time trying that so I'm interested to see how it turns out. I recently saw a Fathom that was done this way and every flippin' part was gorgeous. Had to try it myself.
Pics coming.
shardian:
I wasn't all that impressed with the tumbler results I got. I ended up hand polishing everything with Eagle One wadding. Now THAT worked great.
ChadTower:
How long did you tumble it for, media, polish? Just curious. I have 4 caps of Berry Brash Polish in there right now.
shardian:
I'm pretty sure it was corn media, with some 'media reactivator' crap added in. It cleaned the parts, and made slight dull areas shiny. Everything was nice and smooth too. For the effort though, it really wasn't worth it. I got 10x the results with Novus and wadding. I just grabbed a handful of parts and polished them while watching a show or movie with the wife.
Oh, and I ran the machine overnight usually for near 24 hours.
ChadTower:
Cool, thanks for the info. I'm not quite done yet with mine but it's been 23 hours and the stuff looks pretty damn good. A couple really bad pieces need to stay in but I'm quite happy with the ball trough and the metal "plastics". I'll get some pics up to show.
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