[DeTomaso] polish ZF cost estimate

[Charles Engles]

Dear Guys,


             One other consideration of the polisher working on a fully assembled and presumably, fully functional, *expensive* ZF: if after a careful and proper polish job *any* malfunction or problem occurs with the pretty polished ZF, then all eyes and finger would point to the polisher.  He probably wouldn't want that grief and headache.


                        Worst case scenario,  Chuck Engles




-----Original Message-----
From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of michael at michaelshortt.com
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2014 9:34 AM
To: boyd casey
Cc: Mike Drew; detomaso at poca.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] polish ZF cost estimate

IMHO...I think it would just be a big PIA, so heavy and hard to move around in the multistep process.

Michael
On Sep 14, 2014 9:56 AM, "Boyd Casey" <boyd411 at gmail.com> wrote:

>    Mike,
>    Do you think that polishing a fully assembled ZF presents A a risk to
>    damaging the transaxle? You mentioned people polishing a Trans axle
>    while it was still installed. I have posted warnings against sand
>    blasting and even wet bead blasting while one has an engine or
>    transaxle installed. I know from A information passed on to me by my
>    friend who owns a new water based glass bead blasting business that
>    even with substantial efforts made to protect the engine or tranny it
>    is very easy to have a A nominal amount of glass beading find it's way
>    into the engine or transmission and that's A the death knoll for
>    either. A I wasn't aware of similar risks to the ZF A due to polishing.
>    Thanks,
>    Boyd
>
>    On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Mike Drew <[1]MikeLDrew at aol.com>
>    wrote:
>
>      I think Lloyd Butfoy charges $1200 for polishing. Of course he would
>      never do it with the gearbox assembled.
>      I double any professional polisher will either.
>      Mike
>      Sent from my iPhone
>
>    On Sep 13, 2014, at 21:55, Boyd Casey <[2]boyd411 at gmail.com> wrote:
>    >A  A Just out of curiosity, I know there will be a wide variance but
>    what do
>    >A  A you think we be a reasonable price to polish a fully assembled zf
>    dash
>    >A  A -2 with bell housing outside the car. Detached from the motor and
>    >A  A delivered to a polishing shop. Do you think it would be necessary
>    to
>    >A  A take any steps to protect the ZF from intrusion of polish or any
>    other
>    >A  A potential problems?
>
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