Before and after - carb repairs

[Coralsnake]

[Coralsnake]

welded, not glued or epoxied

[Dan Case]

Excellent.

[Side-Oilers]

Pete, that's impressive!

[Shelby_r_b]

Wow.  Very nice! 

[cbrown]

I bet you tumble it in steel shot for a bit and will look like nothing happened  there!

chris

[NC TRACKRAT]

Nice job!  Care to share your procedure, equipment, etc.? 

[Coralsnake]

Found a guy, not cheap, but good results. I will post more soon

[Bigfoot]

I'm missing a small piece ,...about 1/4 of an average guys fingernail,...on the air horn of a carby.
I'd love to get that fixed. It's on the top edge.

[Chris Thauberger]

Someone has a nice small band file   

Looks good. I assume the other side look the same.

[68blk500c]

Pete, that is outstanding work!

[shelbydoug]

I bet you tumble it in steel shot for a bit and will look like nothing happened  there!

chris

They are 2 68 S8MS carbs and you don't want to disturb the original stampings on the air horns. Now he needs to deal with the color of the dye which tends to be very light on them.

That patch plates need to be the same material to take the dye the same way.

I think any kind of tumbling is going to be risky. Although the 68 Shelby carbs tend to have heavy stampings, some are like the stampings on the distributor housings. Very light.

Someone who can counterfeit the printing plates for currency might be the one to get if you can wait for them to get out of prison? They don't work cheap though.

[Coralsnake]

Other side for Chris

[Chris Thauberger]

There was no doubt in my mind Pete. 

So satisfying when something that most would toss can be repaired.

[Bobby Crumpley]

I bet you tumble it in steel shot for a bit and will look like nothing happened  there!

chris

They are 2 68 S8MS carbs and you don't want to disturb the original stampings on the air horns. Now he needs to deal with the color of the dye which tends to be very light on them.

That patch plates need to be the same material to take the dye the same way.

I think any kind of tumbling is going to be risky. Although the 68 Shelby carbs tend to have heavy stampings, some are like the stampings on the distributor housings. Very light.

Someone who can counterfeit the printing plates for currency might be the one to get if you can wait for them to get out of prison? They don't work cheap though.

Vapor blasting will restore the finish nicely and bring the script back to how it originally looked.