Articles from January 2012



Hardware Cleanup Tip

I was finished with cleaning up and re-assembling my tail lights and noticed the attaching nuts didn’t look so good. I could run each of them on the wire wheel to clean them up but that would take a while. I recently got my blasting cabinet up and working and thought that would be a [...]

Hans Shot First – Reprise

I think this image might have been a bit too geeky and for that, I apologize. I usually like clever uses of visuals and comments but they’re only good if they make sense. I guess it’s sort of like reading a customized license plate and having no idea what the message was intended to be. [...]

Hans Shot First

Spray Paint Touch-Up Tip

I was working with my father-in-law a couple years ago and he was doing some detailing on his intake manifold. I watched his technique and I was amazed. It was amazing partly because what he did made so much sense and partly because I felt so dumb that the technique never occurred to me. In [...]

Stainless Trim Repair and Polishing

Cody is my Cuda-Challenger forum friend who helped me get my dash frame media blasted and painted. It looks beautiful now and much better than I had expected I’d be able to do. Well, he’s the president of the Automotive Restoration Club and really knows his stuff. I just finished rebuilding and installing my steering [...]

A New Year and A Bit Rusty

  Yeah, yeah, it’s been a long time. The end of summer came far too fast and I had too many (non-car related) projects to complete. It’s really easy for me to get out of the writing habit and it didn’t take long to start focusing on other things and not want to start at [...]