<VV> Cleaning the engine (Teardown III)

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Stephan - Glass beading ANYTHING where there are thread, recesses, 
passageways etc is VERY risky. If you can totally sure that everything 
is plugged then you can do it, but generally you're better off not to.  Lon

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Stephen Upham wrote:

>
>     I went back to Richard Finch's book because I remembered him 
> talking about cleaning parts before starting to reassemble.  On p.61 
> of the 8th edition, he states to; "Cold-tank clean and glass-bead 
> clean the aluminum parts".   I refuse to glass-bead clean any engine 
> parts as I've a lot of horror stories of those who have.  But what is 
> "cold-tank" cleaning and is this a viable option?
>