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Originally Posted by Ed in Maine
You mention that you ground down a carriage bolt head to (I think) conform to the inside of the band but what did you use to support the band on the outside, convex side? Also, what was the first sandpaper (roughest) grit that you used when starting cleanup? Thank you, Ed
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When I worked on my cowl band, I also had to remove a couple of dents. Here is what I did to support it: I took a little tin can and cut some notches in the top edge so that a un-dented section of the band could across the top, and then I filled it with plaster to that I would have an impression of the band to serve as an anvil when bumping out the dents:
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I also used this technique to get some dents out of my zinc sill plates.
I sanded out some deep scratches in my radiator shell, and it took forever. I made one mistake: I started with fairly coarse sandpaper (220?), and as I used finer grades, I didn't fully sand out the scratches from the coarse sandpaper. These scratches were disguised by the matte surface as I sanded with 320, 400, 600, and 1000, and they only became visible as I polished the metal with a buffing wheel. So I re-did the sanding over the entire shell with 400, 600, and 1000, and after the second polishing, there were still a bunch of scratches. So I did all that sanding a third time, and finally it looked OK.
Doug