I've been trying to keep busy while
I'm waiting for more body panels to arrive from my painter so I started
polishing my sill plates. I made these awhile ago out of aluminum so I
thought they would look nicer if they had a shine too them. They had a
few scratches so I sanded them with some 320 grit paper and then fed them to my buffing wheel. As you can see, there's a big difference
between them now.
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Here you can see what it looks like
now that it's installed. I used five brass flathead screws to hold them in
place and it sure does look nice against the carpet and orange paint.
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What you see here is the upper section
to my door panel. Notice the line that my garnish molding (the trim
piece that goes around the windows) left in the leather. What I'm
getting ready to do is remove the leather from this area and sand down
the foam that's underneath it to gain more clearance between the two.
The reason for this is because the garnish molding doesn't fit right.
What I did awhile ago was remove some material from the back of the
garnish molding so it would fit better. Once I had done that and
everything fit correctly, the wall thickness ended up so thin that it
cracked while installing it. Now the molding needs to be fixed and that
means a small amount of material needs to added to it. Once that's been
done, I'll end up with even less room so this is a way to gain some much
needed space.
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wasn't easy) and sanded the foam at an angle down to the fiberglass that
the foam is bonded too. The foam is 1/4" thick so this should give me the
added clearance that I need and once the garnish molding is installed, I
shouldn't have a problem anymore.
To apply the glue, I used a brush so I
could put it only where I wanted it because the spray can doesn't exactly
have a very precise spray pattern. I've had the spray can pointed right
at what I wanted to spray before and it's gone everywhere but where I
wanted too. Brushing didn't take but a few minutes and was applied right
where I wanted/needed it.
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