Posts by bcrumpley

bcrumpley · Buddy Bar open letter valve covers bcrumpley September 16, 2021 at 6:15 PM

Thanks Dan, your information is always appreciated. This photo is after a dip in the ultrasonic cleaner and vapor blasting, but you can see the scratches on the fins that will need to be removed as part of the polishing effort.

Bobby

bcrumpley · Buddy Bar open letter valve covers bcrumpley September 15, 2021 at 4:15 AM

Hi Dan. I'm currently restoring a set of Buddy Bar open letter valve covers for my son's replica 289 Cobra that we are trying to get as correct as possible (other than the plastic body!). I have cleaned the valve covers in the ultrasonic cleaner and vapor blasted them, but would like to know a good method to polish the fins and letters. Sanding them with progressively finer paper seems straight forward enough, but once that is done, how does one polish them without getting the black residue on the cast surface?

Thanks,

Bobby

bcrumpley · Vapor Blasting Service bcrumpley February 24, 2021 at 6:02 PM

Hello again, haven't posted in a while so thought that it would be a good idea to give an update. I have recently retired from my job of 30 years and now get to spend all day at home in my shop blasting parts for customers and working on old Fords, which is as wonderful as it sounds. The pay is much worse, but life is certainly better.

Anyway, wanted to remind everyone about the service for those who need it.

Feel free to PM or email with any questions.

http://www.houstonvaporblasting.com

Thanks,

Bobby

bcrumpley · Vapor Blasting Service bcrumpley May 29, 2019 at 3:32 PM

A couple before and afters.

Bobby
http://www.houstonvaporblasting.com

bcrumpley · Vapor Blasting Service bcrumpley May 26, 2019 at 12:08 AM

Dick, I use a glass bead slurry in a flood of water. You can email me at bobby@houstonvaporblasting.com and I can give you my mailing address to try a test piece.

Thanks,
Bobby

bcrumpley · Vapor Blasting Service bcrumpley April 29, 2019 at 9:50 PM

Hi all, many of you have probably seen my posts at the ConcoursMustang and SAAC forums, but I thought I would post here for those of you who might be interested. I do vapor blasting in my home shop and offer it as a service for those restoring their cars. The servo cover pictured here belongs to Morsel's '66 GTK fastback and some of the other parts are from our '66 GT convertible. Feel free to contact me with any questions or to let me know if you would like to get a test piece done before committing to more. I had belonged to the old K code forum, but that was probably 10 or 12 years ago. Prices vary and there will be a discount for quantity.

Thanks,
Bobby Crumpley
MCA #20316