Time to clean up the plastic bezels.
They coated the connection to the glass with black tar and tacky adhesive. I don't want all that on my new glass trim.
I used ISO, gloves and a cotton cloth and slowly removed all black tar and adhesive off the panels.
Before:
After:
These panels are fragile like rice crackers. the previous techs split the corners of most of the panels. Some were long rips. I got 2 that are near perfect and 2 with longer rips.
Before:
I used black electrical tape on the back of the plastic to join the mating edges of the rips. It looks great now and will look better when I coat with my lithium grease. The tape is stopping further damage.
After:
I finished the cleaning all of them. all 4 are ready for a finish in time for the restored glass panels.
They coated the connection to the glass with black tar and tacky adhesive. I don't want all that on my new glass trim.
I used ISO, gloves and a cotton cloth and slowly removed all black tar and adhesive off the panels.
Before:
After:
These panels are fragile like rice crackers. the previous techs split the corners of most of the panels. Some were long rips. I got 2 that are near perfect and 2 with longer rips.
Before:
I used black electrical tape on the back of the plastic to join the mating edges of the rips. It looks great now and will look better when I coat with my lithium grease. The tape is stopping further damage.
After:
I finished the cleaning all of them. all 4 are ready for a finish in time for the restored glass panels.