Two weeks ago I bought a $70 cabinet bead blaster. The lid leaks a little and
my pancake compressor isn't powerful enough to work non-stop, but I'm amazed at
how one can bring a part back to life. Tonight, after installing my three good
dash knobs, I decided to test the OEM horns I had removed a while back and
replaced with Autozone aftermarkets. The screw and jam nut on top of the horns
were frozen and the electrical posts were corroded. I used my impact wrench to
remove the jam nut, along with the adjusting screw, cleaned up the connections,
and tested with a spare battery. After some fiddling with the adjusting screw,
I got a good tone out of each. Then I hit them with the bead blaster and
repainted them gloss black (pride took over). Now I have two perfectly working
and great looking original horns to put back on the car. Now where is that
Autozone receipt . . .
Andy
CD6521L
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