ibkevin

Nice of you to post pics Kraig..

A little something from my VCR archive.

dr bob

Rolf, you've been to a few of these. I'm sure you shared the very broad, almost infinitely broad definition of "the right clothes" for car events like this. Almost anything can (and usually will) be considered appropriate.

morganabowen

dr bob

I usually look at the back of the gas turbine and work on boiler issues. The gas turbine guys are pretty particular about who they let tinker with their toys I guess.

The touch-up procedure is a mix of Larry Reynolds' stuff from his carcareonline.com website, mixed with other stuff I've learned from others and by trial-and-ERROR. Thin paint blend. Toothpick for application.

The measle blade is a good single-edged razor blade, honed on one side with a hard Arkansas stone to finer/sharper edge and the right slope. That suggestion came from Keith Widom, and may be specific to German Measles but I'm not sure. I add a little thin tape on the corners of the blade sometimes, but it's generally pretty basic. The touch-up paint is some R-M Delstar enamel black I bought 15 years ago for touch-up on another car, and it works fine. Have a quart of it, with hardner and solvents. Maybe we need to do a black-car stone chip repair clinic. If you trust me to do some slight metal reformation and finishing, we can do that little eyebrow lift for you too. There's a touch-up gun in the locker here for just such emergencies.

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