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Atomic rebuild
Hi all. I made a start on restoring 1 of the 2 Atomics I picked up recently.
The brown/orange one works fine as is but leaks a bit of steam from the dodgy water cap / safety valve. The plain one needs a lot of lovin'.
I stripped the steam arm off it and it looks like someone has had a crack at repairing the threads in the body with epoxy. 1 big helicoil coming its way I think.
There appears to be no threads in the posts that hold the filter screen either so they will cop the same treatment. I'm putting a complete steam arm assembly on it too.
The OE one was pretty seized and although it freed up fine a new one is cheap enough so why not. New seals and water knobs for both, a few new baskets and we should be good to go.
The plain alloy one will be the camping set up I think. Not too sure on what to descale the insides with at this stage but its pretty feral in there. The group seal in the plain one came out like a piece of dehydrated fruit. Anyway, the process begins.
The brown/orange one works fine as is but leaks a bit of steam from the dodgy water cap / safety valve. The plain one needs a lot of lovin'.
I stripped the steam arm off it and it looks like someone has had a crack at repairing the threads in the body with epoxy. 1 big helicoil coming its way I think.
There appears to be no threads in the posts that hold the filter screen either so they will cop the same treatment. I'm putting a complete steam arm assembly on it too.
The OE one was pretty seized and although it freed up fine a new one is cheap enough so why not. New seals and water knobs for both, a few new baskets and we should be good to go.
The plain alloy one will be the camping set up I think. Not too sure on what to descale the insides with at this stage but its pretty feral in there. The group seal in the plain one came out like a piece of dehydrated fruit. Anyway, the process begins.
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