Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Final Touches

This week's been filled with with lots of...

1. Removing overspray from the previous paint job from various body parts...



2. Removing lots of compound spatters. Not as easy as it looks. The residue disappears when wet, but reappears after it dries. I regret not cleaning as I went...



3. And I broke a window. Because it was not installed correctly I couldn't get the trim piece in place. It was glued in with urethane. There was no way to remove the window without destroying it anyway. So, I took a chance and decided to try to lightly grind a notch to cattywampus the trim piece in. The window went *POOF* and intantly shattered. This was the result...



I popped and crackled for almost an hour. Made a neat pattern though!



I sourced another window from American Auto Glass on Yale. The owner Robert was very helpful in this endeavor! Changing out the glass was pretty simple, except for vacuuming out all of the bits of glass. It was kinda fun smashing the window out. Don't get to do that everyday! I cut out all of the urethane sealer and replaced it with the proper -flexible- type.



Window refitted... correctly this time...



Next time, before-and-after pictures...

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