The stainless trim can be "finessed" back into shape with careful light
"body
shop" metal work "hammering" followed by light filing and then sanding with
progressively finer wet/dry
sandpaper and finished by buffing with the right
compound on a cloth polishing wheel. The stainless
wheel trim on my Mark II
was badly bent up when I bought the car, but
it now looks "as new." Took me a
fair amount of time and patience...
but it was worth the effort.
Although I didn't follow the exact techniques in the following article, it is
one of many on the Internet describing how to repair stainless trim.
http://www.hotrod.com/howto/3401_stainless_trim_repair/index.html
Regards,
Bill Waite
Grand Rapids, MI
--- On Mon, 8/17/09, Rollright@aol.com <Rollright@aol.com> wrote:
From: Rollright@aol.com <Rollright@aol.com>
Subject: [Tigers] Stock Hard Top side trim
To: tigers@autox.team.net
Date: Monday, August 17, 2009, 11:15 AM
Hello,
Its been a while since I posted.........AOL.............
My friend Gary Fish and I have stripped our hard tops to get painted and
make them as good as our cars now are. My top was unserviceable.
Gary stripped his side trim off and wrinkled it a bit in the process. He at
that point said " leave your trim on and we'll have the shop paint around
it.
But, as the side trim is unobtanium, does anybody know of anyone that can
de-wrinkle a couple of pieces of stainless trim? It isn't awful, but not up
to snuff.
Anyone?
Jim Armstrong
Mk 1A 382002083
LRXFE
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