Page 4 1989 Mecatecno Skywalker restoration by Jose Catena

page 4 1989 Mecatecno Skywalker restoration by Jose Catena

Hi James, open exhaust and change fiber glass. And cleaning cylinder which solvent only. After clean in sandblaster to use microballs glass.

1989 Mecatecno Skywalker restoration by Jose Catena

Cleaning the barrell of oil and dirt before soda blasting it

1989 Mecatecno Skywalker restoration by Jose Catena

This is my first test today. In weekend final test in home made sandblaster.
But to use soda.....

And Inter part to part a wiski which soda for me...... Jajajajajajaja

Did you make this soda blaster ?.Was it easy to make ?

I mixed two components. Industrial bicarbonate and glass balls. And all is shoot when sand blaster gun.

And results is real surprise!!!!

Hi James, the glass micro balls is hard which dead material. And soda make bright. And two mixered.......

For Windows left put part inside and front have two holes for hands. And plastic for protection face and can see inside.

You can see results....

1989 Mecatecno Skywalker restoration by Jose Catena

The first day run bike no is pretty... Now yes!!
Now i work on the frame..

Yes. Glassballs way out in gun to 300 km/h And is very dangerus...!!!!. Four Windows left put part inside and front have two holes for hands. And plastic for protection face and can see inside.
You think how work in cylinder....

Yes. Glassballs way out in gun to 300 km/h And is very dangerus...!!!!
You think how work in cilinder....

1989 Mecatecno Skywalker restoration by Jose Catena

Hello James, we began to sandblasting with a small compressor.Tthis was not good since there wasn't much air force.
This was good only for the parts of aluminum when glass.For the chassis we need one industrial compressor that we borrowed from a friend.
The frames were painted with paint to the furnace and is very hard and difficult to remove.
Using glass and baking the paint engine clean is easy.
To remove the chassis we had to use sand from coarse-grained as with the glass soda struggled a long time and the result was not good.
In this moment all sandblasting is finished and start rebuilding.
First I will begin to rebuild the engine.After i'll paint the engine and chassis and i begin to assemble the bike

1989 Mecatecno Skywalker restoration by Jose Catena

Here you can see the right hand side of the yoke is shiny after soda blasting and the left hand side is still corroded.

1989 Mecatecno Skywalker restoration by Jose Catena

Here is a dramatic difference for you to see.
The old corroded barrell with cylinder head and to the right the same object but after soda blasting.

I must get me a soda blaster