External Metal Sunvisor
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 5:54 pm
I am currently restoring an external metal sunvisor to go onto my 1960 Traveller currently undergoing restoration.
Took me ages to strip down, but it is now looking really bonnie in its gleaming new paintwork.
However, those aluminium stips that hide the joins are a real pig to clean up to get rid of many years of scratches and pitting! Does anyone know of anyone who manufactures new ones ( forlorn hope, methinks!)? I did see a visor on eBay sometime earlier this year, and the vendor said that it had been fitted with new ones.
Alternatiively does anyone have a good way of cleaning them up? I'm currently using 400 grit wet and dry to try to eliminate the marks of time ( if it works I might try it on myself!) and then I'll work my way through the finer grades before finally polishing, but it's taking a helluva long tome! Is there a better way? And, of course, I lost several of the wee fold-over tags when bending them to remove the strips. I'll probably lose the rest when I refit! Solutions?
HELP!
Took me ages to strip down, but it is now looking really bonnie in its gleaming new paintwork.
However, those aluminium stips that hide the joins are a real pig to clean up to get rid of many years of scratches and pitting! Does anyone know of anyone who manufactures new ones ( forlorn hope, methinks!)? I did see a visor on eBay sometime earlier this year, and the vendor said that it had been fitted with new ones.
Alternatiively does anyone have a good way of cleaning them up? I'm currently using 400 grit wet and dry to try to eliminate the marks of time ( if it works I might try it on myself!) and then I'll work my way through the finer grades before finally polishing, but it's taking a helluva long tome! Is there a better way? And, of course, I lost several of the wee fold-over tags when bending them to remove the strips. I'll probably lose the rest when I refit! Solutions?
HELP!
