I'd have to go with Jim, here. I wouldn't expect them to be polished
necessarily. That's a whole different level from just rebuilding, and
one that is beyond "original." Bead blasting wouldn't polish them or
remove the defects in the metal, it would just clean them. I don't see a
reason to be upset with what I see in the pictures. They may not be
prettified, but they should be functional. If you were to buy the new
ones available they would also not be polished. The price you paid for
what you got is pretty much the going rate, I'm afraid.
You have to think of these as car parts. Would you expect a rebuilt
alternator to have a concours finish if all you asked for was a rebuilt
alternator?
David.
On Tue, 23 May 2006 17:33:15 -0500 "Jim Johnson" <bmwwxman@gmail.com>
writes:
> On 5/23/06, Billy Zoom <billyzoom@billyzoom.com> wrote:
> > http://www.punkbandsites.com/carbs.html
>
> Man, Billy! Those look pretty good to me even given the vice
> marks.
> Everything else looks new on them. In my experience, original SUs
> when
> they were brand new weren't much cleaner that what you've got
> there.
>
> With these old cars, its hard to know what original looked like any
> more. Fortunately, I am old enough to have that perspective. I see
> a
> lot of cars and motorcycles today that IMHO are what I consider to
> be
> greatly overdone. That is to say they look far better than the
> vehicles did when they were new. If that's what you want, I guess
> its
> okay, but I don't recall SUs looking a whole lot better than yours
> (except for the vice marks) when they were brand new. I guess you
> could always tear them down and have them polished or plated......
>
> I've got a friend with old BMW motorcycles like mine who says he is
> a
> BMW motorcycle "buff". The rest of us, however, refer to him as a
> BMW
> Motorcycle "buffer"... ;-)
>
> Point is, you can go overboard with this stuff pretty easily...
>
> Cheers!!
> Jim - 68 Midget in Dodge City
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