heiland flash handle

[vortextwist]

I have an old one and what is the best way to get the corrosion and crap out of the inside?

[Firebird21]

Just a hollow tube?

[Firebird21]

Get a wooden dowel, the biggest one you can fit into your drill. (1/2 or 5/8 I think is the most common.)

Cut the dowel down to about 6" then on one side cut right down the center of the dowel about 4" in. So it looks like an old wooden clothespin.

Take a piece of 180g sand paper and fold it so it's 4" wide. (Length shouldn't matter much.) Then slide it into the cut dowel and center the dowel in the middle of the paper.

Put some short screws in the dowel to hold the 2 pieces of the dowel together and hold the sand paper in place. You may want to pre drill the holes so you don't split the wood.


Now you have a nifty little sander you can put into your drill. Put the sand paper and dowel in the tube and pull the trigger. And away you go!

This should also work well with that tight fit of the Vader conversion blade holder.

[vortextwist]

hey ya thanks firebird.

[Firebird21]

Glad my good-ole Yankee ingenuity could help. :D
Around here instead of :

“If it ain’t broke don’t fix it!”

It’s, “If it ain’t broke modify it!”

[xwingband]

First I'd see if anything comes off in a mild solution. I'd try a vinegar mixture then warm soap water. The less hard elbow grease, the better I say. :)

[Firebird21]

The less hard elbow grease, the better I say. :)


Typical of a Floridian... :roll:



:mrgreen:

[xwingband]

Hey, If half of it came off with no work involved I'm all for it. :P

Like the battery crud in your car... why scrub it off if I can pour some Coca-Cola on it (besides wasted soda)?

[vortextwist]

i'll proly try both if the vinagar don't get it all. on the same note, would it be better to make an vader or anakin out of it.

i'll post a pic in a bit

[vortextwist]

i'd wast coca cola. that stuff is awfull

[Firebird21]

Like the battery crud in your car... why scrub it off if I can pour some Coca-Cola on it (besides wasted soda)?


You're supposed to use a water and baking soda solution. The baking soda neutralizes the acid caused by the electrolysis (that fluffy white crap, or green depending on the metals present). And don't get any of it on your clothes. Unless you like holey clothing. :wink:


Coke is corrosive. It will eat through a steel bumper. Just to let you know.

[xwingband]

Coke is corrosive. It will eat through a steel bumper. Just to let you know.

hehe, that's why it's good stuff. :D I never said I'd keep it there either.

[supertrogdor]

Firebird, do you think if someone were to get the acid residue on their clothes it would help them live a more pious lifestyle... as their wardrobe would then match?

[Firebird21]

Lets put it this way... If you get too much on you you'll get to know God real good!

[JediHilt]

Or you can just avoid all that girly man stuff and buy a diegrinder wirewheel and sock it to that sucker.

[vortextwist]

I could, but I spend all my extra money here at The Custom Saber Shop.

[JediHilt]

Vortex Twist is a little girly man. :lol:

[vortextwist]

well I doubt that. But when it comes to the wife letting me have money is like squeezing blood out of a rock.

[bustinthejus]

Let's see you squeeze money out of my dad.... :roll:

[JediHilt]

I'm just razin you vortex.

[vortextwist]

ya I know, but tryin to get money from her for "lightsabers" is tough

[Ryma Mara]

Or you can just avoid all that girly man stuff and buy a diegrinder wirewheel and sock it to that sucker.

That wouldent work very well. the soft metals that the posts are made out of would get scratched away. they do make a tool thats used to clean both the posts and the connector on the cables.

Just mode it to attack to a drill and there ya go, much safer and non destructive way to clean the battery terminals.

[vortextwist]

Or you can just avoid all that girly man stuff and buy a diegrinder wirewheel and sock it to that sucker.

That wouldent work very well. the soft metals that the posts are made out of would get scratched away. they do make a tool thats used to clean both the posts and the connector on the cables.

Just mode it to attack to a drill and there ya go, much safer and non destructive way to clean the battery terminals.
did you even read this? There is nothing in this post about battery posts.

[Firebird21]

did you even read this? There is nothing in this post about battery posts.




Like the battery crud in your car... why scrub it off if I can pour some Coca-Cola on it (besides wasted soda)?


You're supposed to use a water and baking soda solution. The baking soda neutralizes the acid caused by the electrolysis (that fluffy white crap, or green depending on the metals present). And don't get any of it on your clothes. Unless you like holey clothing. :wink:


Coke is corrosive. It will eat through a steel bumper. Just to let you know.


:wink:

[vortextwist]

that's right, battery crud not batery post. I just like to raz my brother a bit. He sleeps too much.

[Firebird21]

I just like to raz my brother a bit. He sleeps too much.


Well then, have at it! :twisted: