Example of "Invisible Repair"

[burleybreath]

Gel hand sanitizer?

 

[georged]

Cut up windscreen wipers...

Yer gettin' colder

 

[georged]

Gel hand sanitizer?

Colder...

 

[autumnfog]

Toothbrush?

 

[georged]

Toothbrush?

Brrrrr... it's gettin' colder by the minute


HINT: Sometimes a high speed whirring noise is beautiful music

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Electric eraser?

 

[orlandofurioso]

Nope, I blieve it is those special buffing wheels George posted lately; the cheerfully coloured rubber type ( silicone grinding/buffing ? ) ones.
Darn; the name/brand escaped me . They are in my Amazon basket now, but quite expensive.
Can be done using sisal wheels too, but they're a tad more abbrasive.

 

[orlandofurioso]

Brrrrr... it's gettin' colder by the minute


HINT: Sometimes a high speed whirring noise is beautiful music

High speed , or low - in this case ?

 

[ssjones]

Ah,I have some Bristle-loc, 3M brand discs for my die grinder...hmmmmm

Gents. THIS is what restoration is, not just cleaning up a pipe. And in the line of "invisible" restoration that George has done, this one is relatively simple. George is truly an artist.

Jesse is right - that is a restoration. I can "clean up" an estate pipe. George restores them.

 

[ssjones]

On the bowl top, if you remove the build-up like George did, but do not have the correct stain to color-correct, you are screwed. (and I'm guessing 99.9% of us do not possess those hundred plus stain colors, nor the expertise to properly blend/apply them)

 

[orlandofurioso]

Ye

Ah,I have some Bristle-loc, 3M brand discs for my die grinder...hmmmmm


Jesse is right - that is a restoration. I can "clean up" an estate pipe. George restores them.

Yep, what is what I meant

 

[orlandofurioso]

 

[ssjones]

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Yep, be very wary of those colors.....I use them to clean up auto cylinder heads, they will cut!
The white is the last abrasive that I own. (can't say that I've seen the purple) These last years, so I don't buy them very often.

 

[orlandofurioso]

Not the ones, but similar. Less abrasive.
Help me out George

 

[orlandofurioso]

On the bowl top, if you remove the build-up like George did, but do not have the correct stain to color-correct, you are screwed. (and I'm guessing 99.9% of us do not possess those hundred plus stain colors, nor the expertise to properly blend/apply them)

Correct, but my ten ( or so ) stain colors go a long way.

 

[AroEnglish]

Getting warmer.

HINT: the wheels on the bus go round and round

Tire rubber?

 

[orlandofurioso]

 

[orlandofurioso]

Too much suspense now. I can hardly take it in .

 

[jguss]

All this talk of invisible repair and true restoration evades the issue; why hasn’t this pipe been modified for medical cannabis?

 

[orlandofurioso]

All this talk of invisible repair and true restoration evades the issue; why hasn’t this pipe been modified for medical cannabis?

I did a lot of the stuff, but never "medical"
It was good medicine though.