HOW TO DO IT YOURSELF ON A BUDGET If you’re restoring a vehicle, a major milestone in the process is when you paint the vehicle. At that stage, although still far from finished, the project really starts to take shape. Depending on your skill level and ambition, you may wish […]
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What is Guide Coat?
When you’re looking at that jet black classic car at your local cruise in you may take for granted all of the steps it took to get the car looking laser straight and the finish so “deep” looking. A necessary step in doing bodywork and getting the body of your project straight is to use guide coat. Read on as we give you some insight on why you need guide coat when repainting or restoring a your car or truck.
How to Build a Custom Hot Rod Dash
In this tech article we’ll show you how to make this custom hot rod style dash that would have gauges all the way across. We’ll be using the Eastwood bead roller, the shrinker, stretcher, and the punch bead knockout dies. This process can be used to design and fabricate your own custom dash for your next project vehicle.
How to Build a Weather Pack Electrical Connector
Wiring and electrical work on your car can be a mysterious and frustrating thing to troubleshoot. When repairing or restoring the wiring in a classic it is sometimes better to take a bit of modern technology to give you a piece of mind. In the 1970’s Packard Electrical created the […]
Bead Roller Buyers Guide
If you’re considering buying a bead roller it’s probably because you’re doing some metal fabrication like making floor pans, wheel tubs, or bomber seats and want to add some strength and style to the metal. Eastwood offers a few sizes and styles of bead rollers so let’s check them out and make sure you get the right one for your job.
Your Inlet Filter Could Be Dragging Your Air Compressor Down
An air compressor takes in air and compresses it to give you pneumatic power for your air tools and you want it to work at its optimal performance. There are a few things that can decrease your performance on your compressor and some are simply maintenance items that many people overlook. Just like you want your air compressor to provide clean compressed air at all time your compressor needs to take in as clean of air as possible.
Can I use an Air Compressor to Clean?
Air compressors are most commonly used to run pneumatic tools and to put air into an object like a car or motorcycle/bicycle tire, sports ball, kids toys, etc. We often get questions about using the air pressure in a shop compressor for cleaning or blowing something out. Care must be […]
How To Retrofit Modern Gauges in Your Classic
A retro looking dash for a 60’s Chevy truck will cost you about $400+, that’s a lot to spend on just the dash. Depending on your gauge layout there is another affordable option that will not only retain a classic original look, it will also allow the use of modern gauges. In this article I’ll show you how to retrofit modern gauges into an original cluster by only making a few minor modifications to the factory hardware.
Selecting the Right Air Compressor
An air compressors is a tool, specifically it is a tool to run other tools, unless you just need a volume of air compressed for a SCUBA tank or to inflate a tire. What sort and how big of a compressor you need is going to depend a lot on what sort of tools you need to run with it. A body shop running DA sanders and a paint booth all day long needs a much more robust compressor than an engine shop running impact guns and occasionally a media blast booth.