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Gas tank resto, Final Phase - Tank |
Pat Garvey |
May 15 2010, 08:27 PM
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Do I or don't I...........? Group: Members Posts: 5,899 Joined: 24-March 06 From: SE PA, near Philly Member No.: 5,765 Region Association: North East States |
As many of you know, I have a tank problem, from fibe years (almost) gas sitting in the tank. I bought a good tank, with a bad finish. I'm documenting the rstor of it here.
Phase One - the easy part. I used the evap tank to rehone my finishing skills. It was presentable to most, but not to me. Stripped to bare metal, primed, wet sanded & 3 final coats of black satin. Three days later - wet sanded with 800 grit, Turtle Wax rubbing compound, and Meguiars Show car Glaze. Too shiney, but blame it on intense wet sanding! Pics show it all. Pat Phase Two - Fuel collar. Not too bad after some high grit sanding. We'll see how tha finish coat sticks. Stay tuned, because the tank comes next! For those who think I'm sitting on my ass, pontificating - think again! Pat Attached image(s) |
Tom_T |
Jul 9 2010, 09:01 PM
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TMI.... Group: Members Posts: 8,318 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California |
You do it & do it right, or redo it!
I just hope to do near as good a job on my 73's resto, as you & Tod & Paul & others on here do on yours! I'll be curious to hear which tires you end up with on ole Fritz too! ... will they go on your chromies, as in your pix of Fritz from back in the day in KY?? Cheers & Keep Cool! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Tom /////// |
Pat Garvey |
Jul 12 2010, 08:00 PM
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Do I or don't I...........? Group: Members Posts: 5,899 Joined: 24-March 06 From: SE PA, near Philly Member No.: 5,765 Region Association: North East States |
You do it & do it right, or redo it! I just hope to do near as good a job on my 73's resto, as you & Tod & Paul & others on here do on yours! I'll be curious to hear which tires you end up with on ole Fritz too! ... will they go on your chromies, as in your pix of Fritz from back in the day in KY?? Cheers & Keep Cool! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Tom /////// For the third time in a year, I cut my fingertip nearly off. Some people should not be permitted fine edge knives! Amazing how much you bleed from such a small area! So, it kept me from finishing the tank over the weekend. WILL be finished Tuesday night though. Worked on it a little tonight, but it's tough not being able to use an index finger. . Chunk on some Meguiars. The finished result will be attractive, shiney, etc., but not to my standards. Yeah, I'd put it into my 914, but won't be happy with it. Looks great, but compared to my original it's not so great. I've put more than 50 hours into this tank, but this paint from Wolsburg West is SO hard that it resists wet sanding...to a degree. 600 grit worked well, but cut through four coats quickly. 1000 grit did OK, but was slow to cut. 1500 grit did little - period. Yet, 2000 grit polished it up really nicely. Add some compound, and it is more than presentable. Add some Meguiars polishing compound & it starts looking pretty damned nice. Next, will use Meguiars Final Touch. After that, I'm finished! Time to install. P |
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