Metal surface restoration in Orange, California
We lift decades of corrosion, carbon and old coatings off your parts without opening a bore, warping a casting or touching your tolerances.
What we do
Every alloy, coating and contaminant behaves differently. We pick the process, then tune the media blend and pressure to the part in front of us, not the other way around.
A pressurized slurry of water and fine media floats across the surface instead of hammering it. Oxidation, carbon and old coatings come off; the substrate doesn't. What's left is a uniform satin finish with no media embedded in the pores and no heat distortion in thin castings.
Best for: Cylinder heads · Carburetors · Cases · Aluminum castings
Cavitation reaches where a nozzle physically cannot: jets, galleries, blind holes, threads. Parts come back clean internally, not just cosmetically, which is the difference between a carb that looks right and a carb that runs right.
Best for: Carburetors · Injectors · Small assemblies · Fine detail
Ablation lifts rust, paint and coatings off steel with no contact, no media and no substrate loss. There are no masking headaches, no grit trapped in a weld seam and no blast cabinet required, and it can be walked right up to an edge you need to keep sharp.
Best for: Frames · Tooling · Weld prep · Heavy steel
The last ten percent. Satin, brushed or full show polish, matched to the finish the part left the factory with, or the one you actually want on the bike. Media blend and pressure tuned per alloy so soft metals don't smear and hard ones don't streak.
Best for: Show builds · Covers · Trim · Display pieces
How it works
Ship it, drop it off, or bring the whole project. You'll know the price and the process before anything touches a cabinet.
Mail your parts or bring them to the Orange shop. Photos by text or email are enough for a first estimate. Tell us the alloy and the finish you're after.
We identify the substrate, the contaminant and the risk points: bearing surfaces, sealing faces, threads. Then we quote a firm price and turnaround before we start.
We process, rinse, dry, treat for corrosion and inspect. Parts go back bagged and protected, ready to assemble, not ready for another round of cleanup.
The work
Forty seconds of laser ablation explains this better than a page of copy ever will. Tap either reel to watch it full size, with sound.
A still shows the result. The video shows the process: how controlled the pass is, how fast the coating leaves, and how little happens to the metal underneath it.
That control is the whole job. It's the difference between a part that's clean and a part that's still usable.
Get a free quoteBefore and after
Same part, before and after. Nothing here is staged and nothing is retouched.
Baked on grime and surface rust off the face and around the lug holes, back to an even satin aluminum finish.
Same jug, one pass apart. The left one is honed back to bare aluminum, the right still wears its carbon.
We stopped mid job on this housing so the line is visible. One half as it came in, the other cleaned to bright aluminum.
The gallery
Motorcycle, automotive, wheels and everything in between. Click any photo to open it.
Who we work with
If it's metal, it's corroded, and replacing it isn't an option, it's in our lane.
Cases, covers, carbs, forks and hardware, vintage and modern.
Intakes, heads, brackets and blocks prepped for paint or left raw.
Numbers matching pieces cleaned without erasing castings or stampings.
Airframe and engine components where surface integrity is the whole point.
Lower units and outdrives stripped of salt corrosion and old antifoul.
Molds, dies and tooling descaled between runs without dimensional change.
Who we are
Steve Armstrong runs the shop, and he developed the media blend it works with.
At Parts Reborn, our mission is to restore parts to their original luster and intended use. Through applied knowledge and techniques learned over the years we are able to do just that. Over time we have developed our own system of restoration practices. In conjunction with proven old school methods, we have implemented modern technologies. These 21st century technologies, such as media slurry Vapor Honing, Water Blasting and polishing, we have pioneered our own custom blend of media which sets us apart from others in our industry.
We understand the value of customer service. Rest assured when you entrust us with your parts, your expectations of results will be taken to heart. It is our pleasure to help make your project a shinning reality.
What customers say
Most of them came back with a second set of parts, which tells you more than the star rating does.
★★★★★“I have been bringing parts to Steve for a couple years. Great price, incredible turn around, and an awesome service. I have had 3 or 4 sets of carbs blasted and they look better than new!”
★★★★★“Super fast and very affordable service! Turned my 30 year old intake manifold for an SR20DET engine into a brand new looking component as if it was just purchased from a Nissan dealership.”
★★★★★“Steve did an amazing job on my 2jz gte intake, runner, and water neck 10/10 will be coming back”
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