Cowl band polishing my way

[Kevin in NJ]

I am try to do a post using only my iPhone so let's see how well it works.

Had a very nice cowl cowl band. Just a deeper dent at the hood center and a few minor things else where.

Made some forms using ground down carriage bolts and worked the dents. Them ran through various grit papers till 2000. The key is learning when you got all the last grit out. Not easy to learn and I do use a magnifier to help my eyes.

I made up a form to hold the band. Pretty simple out of some 1/4" ply with a 2 x4 brace across it on one side and some ply braces on the other. I sanded the edge to go into the grove on the band. At the bottoms I cut a 90 degree to the bolt and made up a metal bracket out of scrap.

The bubble wrap was to prevent accidents at the end I was not watching.