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jmvv
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Do not try this at home - she might just kill you

Post by jmvv »

For all the unattached forum members out there, I thought of passing on a fail safe way to really upset your better half (the leader of the opposition)

Just do the following in your kitchen at home.

I bought a used oil bath air cleaner for Petrus - the existing unit was busy shedding it inlet tube.

It needed a bit of sprucing up as 40 odd years were taking its toll from an appearance respective and it was covered in caked-on oil.

To clean it, I warmed it up with a heat gun and then sprayed it with Zeb oven cleaner.

After a few minutes, I brushed the zeb off with a nail brush. Only then did I realise that Zeb is an excellent paint remover.

To clean the oven cleaner off the air cleaner, I washed the whole unit in the kitchen sink with seriously hot water.

Fortunately this was done in the workshop and not at home as this is a rather messy exercise.

The air cleaner was blown dry with compressed air and then painted with primer and satin black from a spray can. Because of the winter temperatures, I heated the air cleaner again with the heat gun prior to painting

This is the start of the operation in the shop kitchen

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The top is being cleaned. I am wearing rubber gloves, as previous experience with zeb left me with stained nails.

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This is the bottom half being cleaned - a real messy exercise

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Primer going on

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New paint after forty years

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Petrus with the new air cleaner.

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Post by Farhaad »

great stuff :hangloose:
now for the rest of the tinware :lol:
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I agree,, photo's where the rest of the tin ware has been done :lol:
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Post by jmvv »

Oi Vey!

You can please some of the people, some of the time etc etc :lol:
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