DRANO CRYSTALS -- Sold in a CAN for about $3 at Lowes or Home Depot. Use it for stripping anodizing off fittings.... Mix up a batch in a plastic bucket - add water.... string the fitting on something (I use bent welding fill rods) and dip them and strip them. It takes a FEW SECONDS..... if you have the mix 'right' -- if it doesn't start boiling -- add more crystals....
Warning -- do not breathe the fumes! LOL -- ask me how I know...
THANKS TO: A&M Machine and Fabrication, CCTek (http://www.candctek.com), Hermance Design(www.hermancedesign.com), Paradise Road Rod & Custom, Harry Opfer Welding, Wegner Automotive Research, Clayton Machine Works
My Boss at the machine shop I worked at used to say "a machine (or tool) is only as limited as the operator". I have taken those words to heart in everything I do. The tool or machine has no idea you are not using it for what it is "supposed" to be used for!
For instance, did you know you can open up the center holes in Corvette rotors to fit over 9" Ford axles with a boring bar? All the boring bar knows is it is boring a hole, it really could care less if it is a Small Block Chevy cylinder or a Corvette rotor it just makes a straight round hole.
EZ off oven cleaner works to take anodizing off too.
Dial calipers as an adjustable wrench and micrometers as C-clamps!
Not me, but i've seen it!
That's not how you are supposed to use them? Scary but I have seen it too. Of course that same person would be the one to accuse us of turning his crank to the wrong dimensions!
Used this little trick today as a matter of fact -- when working on these old pieces of crap (said lovingly) lots of times the trim screw holes are worn out - and that leads to loose trim - or rattles etc. Yeah - you can buy "oversize screws" but who has them when you need them?
So....... I drill out the holes (even the good ones anymore and do this just as a matter of course to every hole) and shove the proper size plastic expansion anchor in the hole - then attach the trim. The screw will hold tight - and won't loosen on you!
Used this little trick today as a matter of fact -- when working on these old pieces of crap (said lovingly) lots of times the trim screw holes are worn out - and that leads to loose trim - or rattles etc. Yeah - you can buy "oversize screws" but who has them when you need them?
So....... I drill out the holes (even the good ones anymore and do this just as a matter of course to every hole) and shove the proper size plastic expansion anchor in the hole - then attach the trim. The screw will hold tight - and won't loosen on you!
I'm tellin ya this guy knows his shzt!!! Greg I told Tony we had to get your butt out for dinner this year at SEMA !! I have to hear how many more tricks you have!!!!!
Brian Hobaugh SCCA National Tour June 2014
First Hemi 'Cuda Convertible Ever Built
Short clips: Goodguys Pleasanton autocross and pit videos
Scary but I have seen it too. Of course that same person would be the one to accuse us of turning his crank to the wrong dimensions! 
Greg I told Tony we had to get your butt out for dinner this year at SEMA !! I have to hear how many more tricks you have!!!!!
Mario
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