A lot has happened since my last update. Not even sure where to start. I’ll have to dig thru pictures to see what I can “show and tell”.
The latest thing that comes to mind was she caught the side molding on the chain link fence when she closed the door and tore it loose. She didn’t want it flapping and I wasn’t home so she ripped it off the rest of the way. Typical!
I ended up buying one of those eraser wheels. They actually work. I was skeptical at first and very hesitant but I figured if I can stay where the trim piece is gonna hide any marks from this wheel I should be good.
Suppose to use it on electric drill but my drill is at the old house still so I just turned air pressure down to 85 and it worked good.
Couple spots were stubborn and I didn’t want to dig in too hard. I can’t believe this wheel gets consumed so fast. I knew that it was consumable and would wear out but damn, all that mess on the floor is from the wheel itself. $12 I shouldn’t complain. At least I didn’t have to scrape it all off. I soaked it down with some Goof Off and scrubbed most of it the rest of the way off. The very edge is hard to remove and it probably won’t hurt nothing.
My biggest concern was with the alignment holes in door. The paint was chipped around the holes and I can’t just cover that up, I’ll hear it rusting while I’m trying to sleep and it’ll drive me crazy! So I sanded the spots down with some 400 and then used my touch up paint pen/brush thing to get the metal covered. Let that dry for 40 minutes and then used the clear thats on the bottom of the paint pen.
I guess I didn’t get any pictures but it looked like crap. I knew I was gonna wet sand it out anyway, I just wanted it sealed. Wet sanded with 1500, then 2000 after that stepped up to 2500 and finished off with 3000. It could have used another coat of clear but I didn’t have time. It’s covered anyway.
I could have left it at that, I didn’t sand outside what the molding covers so I may have been fine but I need to try to cut and polish this little scratch out anyway that she got on the rear right.
Broke out my 2” buffer/ polisher but went with 3” backer and pads on this one.
After getting aggressive with cutting compound I followed that up with polishing compound and I’m happy enough to get the trim ready to put on.
The scratch on back came out decent, I think I might wet sand it out but that’ll come later.
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