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... The front lower spring pans, 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... I also cleaned up a few cables for the hand brake, and speedometer... 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... 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... and I carefully took apart and cleaned/restored the rheostat switch for the blower fan.. Finally I re-painted the main body in black wrinkle finish as original.. 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... Until next time...
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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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