ORIGINAL: opjose
Good info thanks... I'll do the same with a plane I am about to build.
I'm about to put a new ASP I got from them into a pattern plane, with a tuned pipe I picked up at the Toledo show in a bin for a whopping $10.00.
The aluminum pipe was covered with some corrosion and lots of hard gunk. It looked pretty bad, but was the right size to fit the pipe mount in the plane.
I tried various solvents and finally found that ( of all things!!! ) toilet bowl stain and rust cleaner removed ALL of the oxidation and gunk.
It looks brand new with only a very tiny bit of pitting on the most oxidized area.
Who would have thought?
I love swap meet bargain bins. I have bought a lot of misc items like pitts mufflers and aluminum prop spinners for pennies on the dollar. Heck, some people will just give a lot of that stuff away when it gets closer to packing it up to leave. The last swap meet I went to back in Feb...I ended up with a "re-kitted" Trex 450 for 5 bucks. Had complete head assy and tail with belt...all the bolts and caps and linkages...pretty much everything to build another 450 except for the outter frames.
Also...I always take my son with me. He's 6 and I cant list all of the things people just give him. One time a guy gave him a complete glider. People at swap meets, for the most part...are just good people. Heck, people in this hobby in general are just good people to be around.I enjoy the friendship as much, if not more...than the flying and such. Its harder and harder these days to find people that actually want to help others. Great hobby all the way around.