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Refurbish A Rocker cover

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Refurbish A Rocker cover

Post by Slashdotdash » Tue Feb 21, 2012 3:14 pm

So ive done loads in the past so here goes a walkthrough

Remove the gasket, washers and rubber vaccum bung

Get yourself a tin of Nitormoors paint stripper and go to town :)

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Takes two or three goes over
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Post by Slashdotdash » Tue Feb 21, 2012 3:15 pm

more to come
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Post by Slashdotdash » Wed Feb 29, 2012 11:31 pm

Stripped and started smothing off mould lines and top ridge, (LOTS of sanding!)

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Post by Slashdotdash » Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:26 pm

ok so bit of an up date, been working away in liverpool and edinburgh last couple of weeks

So first off, i finnished sanding off the to ridge line and all the moulding marks all over the cover, i then filled and sanded a few low spots with Isopons Metalik filler, and here its masked up ready for the first coat of acid etch primer

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I stole nath's idea for pennies to mask the washer holes :)

And heres the final coat of 3 acid etch primer coats

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Next step will be a 400 grit flat back and 3 coats of Upol high build primer :)
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Post by A1ex » Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:31 pm

Does this mean the cover in your sign will be up for sale soon? ;)
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Post by Slashdotdash » Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:44 pm

unfortunately this was the cover :) i could soon make one again tho
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