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[alpder]

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[bpirie1000]

Cleaning up your act....

Or like me you like the peace and quiet time in the garage....

[johnR]

It's all about the detail!

[Gaz66]

I thought it was just me that cleaned and polished stuff you will never see.
Must be an age thing 😁

[sonikk4]

If you can then why the hell not.

[timmy850]

I spent about over an hour scraping old paint off a diff side cover, sanding it smooth to make it nice for paint. It then spent the last few years coated in oil and dirt and completely out of sight…

[Designer]

I spent about over an hour scraping old paint off a diff side cover, sanding it smooth to make it nice for paint. It then spent the last few years coated in oil and dirt and completely out of sight

 

 

 

 

 

Perfection is in the eye of the beholder.

 

You saw it, so that is what counts.

[ThermalEvent]

Guilty as well... I used those poly wheel coloured grit jobbies for dremels and did everything that was aluminium, things like gearbox/flywheel housing/diff covers/gear linkage/starter motor/carbs/steering wheel/wheels ect. And then had to do the exhaust and finished them all with a buffing wheel on a corded drill.

It does get out of hand but once you restore one component to a high level, all the others then have to be to the same standard! Either that or it's OCD.

[stuart bowes]

Definitely one of those things that snowballs, you do one thing and then look at the rest and go oh no

[Mini Manannán]

Then you anodise the out-of-sight part 

[Gaz66]

At least there's no SU dashpot polishers on here. ..or is there?😳

[stuart bowes]

there definitely will be when I get round to it lol that pair I have need a serious overhaul and I know I won't be able to stop at 'pretty clean' it will have to be 'mirror finish'

 

one I really liked though was whoever it was that painted them to look like lego man heads, that was class

Edited by stuart bowes, 01 December 2023 - 07:53 PM.

[MatthewsDad]

At least there's no SU dashpot polishers on here. ..or is there?😳

Guilty

[cal844]

At least there's no SU dashpot polishers on here. ..or is
there?😳

Guilty

Me too, only when the carb is off the car though

[bpirie1000]

But how did the trumpets end up looking.?