topgun2021
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That is cool, I have an old set I am tryng clean up for selling, you need to tell me how cleaning the chrome parts went.
Al,Dean... I'm using 220 red paper (the color has to do with the type of sand/rock I think). I have some of that waterproof black 440 that I may use to finish up those edges, but the 220 is pretting fine and probably suitable for those edges... I think. I like the belt idea and may try it if these things don't respond to the pressure from the rings and heads. I'd imagine the belt should be as wide as possible to spread the pressure of the cinch. The trick would be to get it tight enough to make a difference.
As far as the paint application, I'm going to spray the interior. I think that'll make for a thinner coat. At the earliest that'll be tomorrow.
Hey Dean... side note. I just bot AC/DC's Black Ice and am really enjoying their back to basics r&r. 'Snakes' is the title of an instrumental and I really don't know who did it. The cut I've got is probably an eight piece jazz band. Great groove to work off of.
Al,Al,
How do you know when your plane is flat?
Are you eyeballing it, or does your plane have a level on it?
Thanks for getting back to me on the song again.
Think you could find it on youtube?
just post the link, or mail it to me, whatever.
As for posting quotes, you could use the little button in the lower right hand corner of each reply that says "quote".
You'll see the text in the box that you normally write your responses in.
If you want to edit the quote, you can just put your cursor in that text and backspace all the parts away, that you don't want to include, OR, you If you hold down the left click on your mouse and move it across those unwanted parts, you can highlight the parts you want to get rid of, then just hit backspace once and it all that highlighted stuff goes away.
...OR...you can just leave it and respond to the entire quote.
As for spacing text around pictures, you have to place the pictures in the post yourself (so if you're using the attachment feature, it won't work).
This means the picture will have to appear somewhere on the net, like an online photo album (Flickr, Webshots and Photobucket are all pretty popular, but not the only ones out there), then you'll need to copy the url of the photo itself and paste that url into the post you're creating.
On each end of that url you'll need to include a couple of pieces of code.
UBB code for an image is
Same format with other things; a quote is "quote" then "/quote", a link is "url" then "/url" (I think that happens automatically here, though).
You can also write text into a link, such as Visit Drummerworld! by altering the link code to read "url=", then you write in or paste the url to the link and follow that with the other bracket ( ] ). The you write the text and follow that with the other half of the code "/url".
Replace all the quotes I've written with brackets [ ] (this post didn't work when I used the brackets, so I used quotes instead, but you need to format it just as I showed you with the image format above. Only the lettering inside the bracket changes, depending on what action you want to take place).
Hope that didn't give you a headache. I know, the learning curve is a little steep for all of us at one time or another.
Elvis
Al,
How do you know when your plane is flat?
Are you eyeballing it, or does your plane have a level on it?
Elvis
Yeah, that made perfect sense.
Great variation on the "truing an edge" idea.
Elvis
Today I'll finish mounting the lugs and heads and then do additional polishing on the worst chrome pieces.
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Seeing that wire wheel on your dremel reminds me of a humorous tale I once heard about a guy who wanted to "polish" his cymbals so they looked nice.
His solution was a big ol' angle head grinder and a heavy grit disc.
...oh, yeah, I'm sure they "polished up", real nice. =))
Elvis