Wax on, wax off.

Another post covering a couple of days of a few bits and pieces most of which involved paint going on or coming off. I, however, am too old to be the Karate Kid, although 05 KD 28 is the same age as the film.

Final coat on the front axle ….

… and the chassis.

I also did the second and final coat on the leaf springs and whilst I had the black chassis paint out did the first coat on the rear axle.

I now need to pull finger on the spring mounting plates, front slipper plates and rear slipper plates / brake pipe mounts. Then I can get a rolling chassis!

Whilst tidying some bits of 05 KD 28 so that I might find them again I ended up thinking that cleaning the multiple coats of paint off the vent fly screens would be a good idea.

After liberally coating them in paint stripper, and then giving them a long soak in hot water, I ended up giving them an acupuncture treatment. Armed with a pin I went through unblocking the holes.

I now need to decide what to do with them as the mesh is slightly rusty. I am thinking a light spray of yellow just over mesh.

With the stripper out I also thought I would attack the bulkhead so I could gauge the extent of the rust. The rust is exclusively associated with panel seams and seems related to the somewhat haphazard approach to seam sealer the BL chaps had. It hasn’t been helped by some ‘agricultural’ previous repairs.

I started with stripper which got the first layer of NATO green off and started softening the light green primer, yellow, nato green, black undercoat, and light grey primer.

I then resorted to wire brushing, before getting to work with stripper again. The wire brush on a grinder is a good test of metal’s right to remain on the bulkhead. I need to do more, but nothing terminal found yet.