[Amc-list] Mother's

[Joe Fulton <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yesterday, while dancing around the project of installing the engine in the 65 Rambler I was polishing the grilles and the headlight doors. I had been sanding the grilles lightly starting with 400 grit wet or dry paper and then progressing up to 1500 grit to try to remove somoe of the road rash from the grilles.  It's pretty much a lost cause.  They'll need to be re-anodized to return them to a factory look but that will never happen on this innocuous 4-door sedan.

Anyway, I remembered that I had some Wenol polish in the red tube which had produced great results on polished pieces of my 66 Rambler and my 73 Javelin.  So I started using that and it still seemed kinda mild for my purposes (stains were slow to remove).  I started reading on the net and Mother's aluminum and mag polish was recommended.   I remembered that I had a jar of it, but had not had great results with it in the past.  I used it and was amazed at the way it removed the haze and stains from the aluminum parts.  I masked and repainted the black portions last night and will lay the parts aside until the engine is installed.

I used gloss black for the trim paint on these parts because semi-gloss just seemed too dull.  I don't know what the factory used.  My parts were too worn and faded to be able to tell.

Eric Clapton on the stereo, polish doing it's job.  Life was good.

Joe Fulton
Salinas, CA
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