RE: [BaadAssGremlins] Grills & Plexiglass

How true about people not going to be driving a Hornet or Gremlin after 30 some years. You said the Vega was a throw away car, but "others" thought the same thing about AMC's also. Kinda like the Saturn that is my daily driver. NO resale value at all. Dent resistant body panels, I call it "the true plastic car". But with over 290,000 original miles and a motor that has never been touched, as far as any major work, just well maintained and I still get 38 m.p.g. on the highway.....heck, I will still be driving it when I am....your age Doc!! LOL!! Just kiddin' ya there. I do have some good pictures that I took of the head light doors while I was re-enforcing them, before and after stuff. I will send then to ya. I mean they are not pretty, told ya that I have these sausage fingers and I get more glue and crap on my fingers then I do the part. I mean it is the back of the buckets, and no one is going to see it. I havent started on the old grille yet, I want to kind of "experiment" on one first before I go making a big gob of glue and plexiglass sticks on a n.o.s. grille. It is a very time consuming process. I am going to have to go to the craft shop and get some more plexiglass. I am going to "try" to hand piant the silver, but I havent found a good chrome-silvered color paint. Plasti- kote enamal is about the best that I have found, but I havent found it in a brush on...all I have found is spray can. GO FIGURE!! I blame the manager at my local "wallyworld". Good news on the funny little spring doohickey things I found some at my local auto paint store. The bolt that sticks through is a bit larger in diameter than the originals but they will work just fine. 69 cents apiece, but no nut. Anyway gotta run.... Bill Id. AMC's RULE...THE REST....JUST DROOL!!

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Subject: RE: [BaadAssGremlins] Grills & Plexiglass
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 06:34:24 -0500

Bill at least one good thing is I don't have a problem with the headlight doors. They were fine and I also have a spare set I got in that bunch of parts I got from Davis. The only problem was the time it took me to mask them up properly to spray paint the silver. I think it took 2-3 hours a headlight door. The grill is going to be a nightmare to mask as there are 6 different sections. After painting the silver with a spray can I still have to paint the edge of each individual rib in each of the 6 sections by hand with a brush. I still have a few re-enforcement ribs to install yet and make the tabs on each side of the grill to hold the plastic plug that the headlight screws to. I have already used up almost 2 tubes of the Plastic Welding System epoxy. I think I will pick up another one just in case so I don't run out. I added 12 small plexiglass ribs between the 6 grill sections and and an 8 inch piece of 1/2 inch square plexiglass in the notched area for the hood latch release. I was amazed how much stronger the whole grill is. I still have to notch and round off the 1/2 inch square piece a little but it will still be much stronger as this was the biggest weak point in the whole grill. I guess AMC never figured we would still be driving Hornet's and Gremlin's after 36 years. :-) "Doc"

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From: "William Renshaw" <lionwren@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: RE: [BaadAssGremlins] Grills & Plexiglass
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 04:25:31 -0800

I know where your coming from Doc....I am not sure how many HOURS I have just into the headlight buckets that I have been doing all week. I made a mistake the other day that sent me back also. I tried to use a cheaper glue. Same brand, said that it had a 15 min. bond time, dried clear...stuff must of been old or somthing...took over a day for the crap to weld itself to the plexiglass.....Needless to say I dont use that glue anymore!! One little trick I tried and worked was to use a torch so that the plexiglass was pliable and could bend to the shape of the bucket. Not to the point of melting, but just enough so that it could bend with out breaking. What I plan on using for the inside of the bucket is a brand of paint called "plastic coat". Its an enamel paint and I have used it with good success with other projects. It usually comes in a jar and has to be applied with a brush, but I did find some in a spray can at my local wallyworld. And the Dremel tool......LIFE SAVER!! I cut plexiglass with it, I have made new mounting points for the ones that have been busted off...if the plexiglass is sticking out to far, just whack it off with the Dremel tool. Works good for ruffing up the plastic so stuff will stick to it. I do have a few small cracks that I couldnt get back to their original position, so I am going to try to use a little spot putty and some sanding to take care of the cracks. I just hope that the spot putty will stick to plastic as well as it sticks to bondo. I am going to use an old grille first, kind of like a template, before I attempt to re-enforce the n.o.s. grille that I plan on using. There are alot of places that need to be re-enforced....I to have noticed that why are these grilles...so cheap and flimsie?? Bill Id. From: AMC74HORNET@xxxxxxxxx Reply-To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx, BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] Grills & Plexiglass Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 06:30:43 -0500 I am finally making some progress with the grill. It is amazing what a few small pieces of plexiglass in the right place will do to stiffen up a flimsy grill. The PIA part is the cutting and fitting of them but thanks to a battery powered & 110 volt Dremil's it is coming along. I should have all the pieces glued in by the end of the week or at the latest sunday. Then comes the tedious part of sanding and painting the whole thing. :-( "Doc" YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "BaadAssGremlins" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: BaadAssGremlins-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.