This is from the “payback is a b!#$%” category. You may have read Carl’s post about our recent roadtrip to Chicago to get my clock project. In it, he says of my clock …
He calls it an antique, to me it looks like the stage before a digital watch, what is it with Americans and “old” [...]

If you’ve never had the pleasure, too bad. I spend a couple hours late today using the blasting cabinet over at Sinclair Aircraft. Generically, it might be called “sand blasting” but these days, the blasting medium varies with the task. I like glass bead. I’ve used aluminum oxide and even walnut shells.