Paul sill restoration is not easy and takes great patience and many many
hours. I have an assortment of body and fender hammers and small ball
peen hammers and pick hammers. I make custom wooden bucks to help beat
out the dents and scrapes. Then you go to a coarse scotch brite pad to
remove the alumium corrosion and then you go to 500#, 600#, 1000#,1500#
sandpaper and then to crocus cloth. Then you start with the various
grades of polishing compounds from the coarsest to the finest. I did
them on my yellow Hornet a few years ago and it takes on an average of
40 hours for one done properly. I'd love to just buy repo ones and
polish then out like chrome in 1/2 hour but non are available. :-(~
"Doc"
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- From: Paul Hancock <kwikbiker@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 13:07:06 -0800 (PST)
Doc When you restore these sills do you use hammer(s) and a flat surface to remove dents? would like to do mine but have never attempted it before. Sounds like a project you could be proud of. Paul
AMC74HORNET@xxxxxxxxx wrote:With the car in the upholstery shop getting the seats done finally I
have 2 last items to restore to totally complete the interior, the
aluminum door sill plates. I picked 2 of the best out of the 6 I have.
It will be a tedious job picking out the dings and dents, sanding out
the nicks and scratches and polishing them. What better time than right
now since I don't have the car and it is winter. I now have all the
supplies to use the Eastwood platting kit to plate the hatch guide pin I
made. The rear window louver should be back from the media blaster next
week, so I can star t prepping that to paint. I have the stripper to
strip the urethane 77 AMX fender flares, the flexible primer to paint
them with and the orange paint and the flex additive to paint them with.
Being disabled and not working gives me plenty of time to do all this
although at about 1/10 the speed I did such things 15 years ago. Happy
New Year everyone.
"Doc"
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