Still waiting for the seats for the Chevy. The upholster lost his helper of 8 years and so is even later than expected. Seats were promised a couple of weeks ago. In this business you need to have patience otherwise best do something else!
In the meantime I’m restoring a set of Studebaker valve covers. I’ve twisted the spark plug brackets off the top of each one. They are rusted and it’s easier to remove them than repair them. I’ll be doing them up in yellow as was the originals from the factory. My plan is to make them up and let the paint cure longer. Last set I put on before a full cure and the paint took on oil stains that I can’t polish off.
The inside of one is OK, but the other will need to be sandblasted
I’ m scraping some of the easy crud off before sandblasting. My equipment is hobby class and so takes a lot to clean off old glue and hardened paint – even with “0” grade media and 100 psi.
Cleaned up nicely
Next step is to use the dremel with grinding burr to take off the spot weld remains on top and also the ridges and burrs on the spot welds around the bottom that hold on the gasket lip on the inside. The little bits of paint left after sanding blasting I’ll take off by sanding.
Next: filling and sanding