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This Saturday was great outside. I've been working on the radio indoors. I'll post a full rebuild of that once its finished. Right now it looks like this:



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Scary huh? This is my first radio teardown and repair so Google and I have been working pretty hard at learning what the heck I'm doing. I hope it doesnt blow up and take out a city block lol. If it works and any of you want to rebuild your original AM radios back to working condition it'll make for a good step by step guide. I only listen to Am anyway so its perfect for this news junkie.

So back to Saturday. We had a storm blow through and it knocked a bunch of our limbs off of our trees. Cecilia got loaded up and carried a couple of loads to the dump for us. She's a workhorse for sure. And it's great not worrying that she'll get all dinged up with a few sticks like newer trucks. Thanks heavy gauge sheet metal!



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After that I wanted to make another attempt to get the primer off of her. Someone I talked to suggested Mineral Spirits so I bought a can of this and pulled out my pressure washer again. The lid on these is a safety lid that YOU CANT OPEN. The plastic is just cheap and spins over the metal cap. I took a screwdriver and pried it off to get it open. It closed right up afterward like nothing ever happened. The plastic part playing in my trash can with other worthless junk.



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The verdict on this stuff is a very unhappy two thumbs down. It didn't do anything at all. I rubbed with steel wool and that worked OK, but it did the same without this stuff. i packed it all back up and

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after hearing about it's spray-paint removal power. Leave it on a few seconds, they said, and poof! You have old paint restored.



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I'll let you guys know how it worked when it comes in on tuesday. That was it for paint removal. Highly anticlimactic.


So I grabbed my newly de-toothed Powder Puff mechanic...



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...and we sanded off the air cleaner again cuz of the paint getting rough spots from the last outdoor painting. Thanks to member WDShaffer for the advice on the sanding. I tied her to 600 grit and let her start scrubbing. THe pics were indoors so they turned out too dark, but here's the end result. Smooth, shiny, and we're 100% happy.



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Now we just need to do something about that peeling and abused engine.

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