How do I clean my dirty arms?

[Bullyboy]

Sand or glass bead blasted they look new.
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After

[DORIGTT]

DAMN! Mine are definately the before shot.

Are you concerned about grit infiltrating the bearings during the blasting process? I noticed your hubs were still installed....

[Bullyboy]

If I wasn't disassembling them all the way down to the bare bones, I would have taped off the gap.
I am going to replace the bearings later, but I was tired of trying to fit things up and get dirty every time I handled them. I had to try out my recycled junk blast cabinet anyways.

[DORIGTT]

How big of a cabinet did you make for yourself? I've been thinking of just disassembling them once everything works/fits and sending out all of my components which are too big for my bench-mounted blaster to my favorite male-stripper (that's the message the guy leaves me here at work...bastard)

[boygenius]

I always used WD-40 to eliminate most of the grease.

[Bullyboy]

The cabinet is 36Lx25Wx40H. I just used the scrap MDF I had in the garage and thats what the sizes ended up. I lined the inside with white conveyor belting we had at work (headed for the dumpster). I had to buy the blast gun ,gloves, silicone, clamps.
You can expand your table top blaster like I did with mine years ago. We couldn't fit some parts into the cabinet so I built an extension box that just sits on top of the bench mounted cabinet. I removed the glass lid and put a fixed glass into the top box. It has worked good for years like that.

[wrenchnride247]

If you don't want to bead blast them, and use wire wheels in drill they look like this.(just for comparison)

[Steve C]

Hi

I used the wire brush method as well, they came up pretty good. I also used some evil stuff from a chemical company that was a bit like oven cleaner. While washing chemical stuff off, it ran into the bearings, I was going to change them anyway.

Steve