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A few more pieces,

11/3/2018

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Over the last few weekends I've put in some good hours on restoring some more components for my BN1. On Friday I stopped into our local 'Blast-It' center to sandblast a bunch of steel components and prepare them for re-painting. 
Here's what I got done:
The fresh air duct valve, and all the pedals...
The under dash supports and bumper brackets...
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The front lower spring pans,
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I stripped and painted all the interior metal pieces including the tunnel sections, seat frames, parcel tray and battery box lid. The main tunnel section I had to strip by hand as it's made from aluminum that would distort if exposed to sandblasting.
All the interior pieces were primed and re-painted dark brown as original...
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I also cleaned up a few cables for the hand brake, and speedometer...
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and cleaned and polished all the Bakelite dash switches, and voltage regulator - many of which are also date coded and original to the car. I will need a new overdrive switch, air vent cable repair and new knobs for the wiper and headlight switches...
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Today I focused on restoring the heater. I took it all apart and thoroughly cleaned and refurbished everything, carefully stripping and re-painting as needed. I even managed to mask and save the factory labels and date stamps I found on the blower motor...
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and I carefully took apart and cleaned/restored the rheostat switch for the blower fan..
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Finally I re-painted the main body in black wrinkle finish as original..
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All that's left for the heater is to solder up a crack found near the end of one of the water lines and then source some accurate reproductions of the demister vent hoses...
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Until next time...
1 Comment
Andy Wright
11/4/2018 07:47:16 am

Hi Geoff, You are doing a great job with all these parts. I wish I had your patience. One thing, it might be a good idea to run some CLR through the Heater Core to clean off any oxidation or build-up. Make sure you flush it well afterwards. Also it will tell you if it has any leaks. Better to find out now. Cheers, Andy.

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