Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Posted a few pics...

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Bill one trick I did not mention that I learned when working in aviation
is to stop drill the cracks with the smallest drill you have. This
relieves the stress from vibration and will keep the crack from
spreading if it ever starts to crack again after the initial repair. You
have to have the patience of a saint to work on 30+ year old brittle
plastic. That's why I am building a wooden Jig to screw the grill to
when I work on it so it won't be damaged. It will probably take 3-4
hours over a 2 day period to just design and cut and glue and screw the
wood together for the Jig. It is easier to spend the time to do this
than to spend the time and money to find another grill. I am a little
behind as I just finished the last headlight door this morning and now
have to go run my usual tuesday errands. The wife is not to happy with
me as she saw the grill on a box in the corner of the living room when
she came home last night. :-)~ get over it!!!!!
"Doc"



 
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• From: "William T. Renshaw" <lionwren@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 15:53:14 -0000

I posted a few pictures of my Dads trains for all to see. Look for them
in Brother B's Gremlin. Brother B. is my C.B. handle and a knickname I
got a few years back. Good luck on the grill resto Doc. I have started
on my headlight buckets yesterday also. Got them all cleaned up and
found out kind of the hard way how delicate that old plastic is. I am
using simple green solution to clean them up and the rag caught one of
those cracks and cracked it even more! That kind of sucked! :( I got
lucky and it didnt completely break off. But all in all its going well.
I am not going to paint them yet as I am still undecided what color I
am going to paint the car. Today I glue them cracks up, and I am going
to try to use some liquid model glue on one of them and see how it will
hold up. I have to be and have some patients here, cuz I know myself..
Once I get started on things, I have a tendency to go all out and if I
get in a hurry I know myself and I will either really screw somthing up
or break somting!! LOL! Stuff happens. Bill Lewiston Id.





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