rev up your engines, today I'm gonna show you the many uses of one of these rotary
tools, they're very handy when you're doing any kind of repair work where the
surfaces have to be perfectly smooth or polishing metal, and my advice is if
you're gonna get one of these rotary devices, shop around see what's out there
just don't buy the most expensive one or the cheapest one, this is a mid price
one and I've been real happy with it, and here's another tip, when I didn't know as much
as I did now, I buy these little ends for buffing and polishing and stuff at the
hardware store out of the dremel kits, but hey these things are anywhere from
three to five dollars a piece, well that was then and this is now, look
at this, I got a whole bag of them Amazon to the rescue, there are scores of them
in here and that whole bag was like $8, don't buy them one at a time in a hardware
store buy them by the bag, these things do wear out cuz they're polishing and
they have pieces come off as their polishing, so get bags or the stuff like I
do, on the cheap, now look how corroded the
metals got and on the left side of my triumph, I gotta say that they're making
things cheaper than they used to, but check this out
when I was young and much cheaper than I am now believe it or not, I used to do
this by hand, I get a rag I get polish, started polishing and when you had big
corrosion like this it could take hours and hours, and yes with corrosion like
this hey these things wear out pretty fast that's why you buy bags of the
stuff, you don't have to worry about paying $3 a piece like I used to
now this is only five minutes of polishing you can see it's already
looking better, you spent 20 30 minutes you can get it to look perfect, and when
it comes to rusty pieces like the shifter rod here, it gets rid of the
rust and since that shifter I was painted silver anyways get some of these
micro applicators they're like little paintbrushes, you see
they have tiny little ends, then we get a little silver paint and paint over it so
the rust won't come back, now you can't spray paint in there because hey you get
a messy paint all over the place so just take the top off the spray can and spray a little
in there then you got some in here, these tiny little applicators are fantastic
getting in little crevices, now here's a really rusty part this was chrome plated
it's a oil feed tube, and you can see it's really horrible but in order to replace
it you have to take the whole engine apart, so I am going to clean it with
this rotary device really clean
the I use some steel wool, all first some rough stuff and had some finer stuff to
make it nice and smooth, and you really get vigorous rubbing, then use the really
fine steel wool to make it nice and smooth, then prep it with some denatured
alcohol, it'll take any foreign substances off so
you can paint it, wipe it all over get everything off so it's perfectly clean
you don't want all this crud messing with you paint, then you let it air dry
now in this case I'm using por-15 high-temperature black paint because
that's on the engine it's going to get relatively hot, and this stuff can take
the heat, I would rather have another chrome piece put in but then I would
have to take the whole engine apart and odds are if I buy another one of these
triumph parts the chrome plating is gonna come off anyway, so I'm just as
happy it's inside the engine I'm gonna paint it black, and again I'm gonna use
these little micro applicators cuz you can get it down nice and you won't touch
other parts and get paint on other things, these little things are fantastic
for doing detail work, now we'll just apply the paint, now this is high
temperature paint and that was bare metal we cleaned it down to, so you
can see it starting to look quite a bit better, but I'm gonna end up paint the
two or three times over the next couple of days, and once it's dry to the touch
since its high temperature paint, we gotta run the engine a little to give it
a little heat and that's what cures it, so start her up and let it idle for five or ten
minutes then shut it off and then tomorrow I'll probably put another coat
on and do that for a couple of days, so then it's nice and thick and it'll keep
the rust from coming back, they're not just for polishing hey you can get these
cool little wire brushes that go on the end of them and really do the same
thing as I did with the polishing attachment
don't go to the store and buy these things for three four or five dollars a
piece, I got bags of these things and they're like you know 10 11 bucks when I
looked around Amazon and you get a whole bunch of these fine brushes which you
can use in all kinds of auto repair, for example anything that has a mating
surface it needs to be sealed, this is all dirty well hey
then when it's all shiny put a gasket on bolt it on and the thing won't leak, since
these devices fit in smaller holes, they're great for stuff like water pump
you take the water pump off the engine and the engine is generally recessed in
there and it's very hard to try to scrape all the old gasket off because
there's no working room and scrapers are kind of long and it won't fit in there
these can fit in really small spaces and if this end doesn't work hey there's
lots of other ends that are even smaller with brushes on them, they can get in really
small nooks and crannies, the last thing you want is to bolt a water pump on your
engine after doing all that work, then when you put it all together it leaks
because the gasket area where it seals isn't perfectly smooth, this stuff
smoothes it out and it does it really fast, and you can get little grinding
wheels for them to grind off stuff and little areas, you can even get little
paint strippers to strip paint off of tiny areas if you need to do that, these
little rotary tools man they are exceptionally handy, of course you can
use them all around the house too but for working on your car it's really a
must-have tool if you're doing any kind of gasket work or any kind of polishing
work or if you've got pieces that don't fit just exactly, you can mill off little
bits at a time, so that they fit in, hey these things are fantastic heck I'm so crazy I
was even thinking about putting a soft attachment on and polish my own teeth to
save money at the dentist but I my wife talked me out of that one, so now you know how handy
one of these little rotary tools can be, hey you might think about getting one
yourself, just like I say price around see what's
out there see what you want to spend, you don't have to spend too much but don't
go really cheap, because years ago I tried the cheapest ones that are like
you know nineteen ninety five and they just burnt out they weren't worth it
spend a little bit more and you'll get a much better tool it's gonna last you for
a really long time, so if you never want to miss another one
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