Saturday, March 10, 2012

Not giving up

So maybe I was having a bad day. Stuff at work. Training hard -- cycling and running, that is. For whatever reason, the accumulation of setbacks seemed like too much to take on. So I decided to abandon this project.

Time passed. A few days. I discussed my decision with friends and got a lot of encouragement to keep going. So I decided I was back in the game.

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The next Saturday, my birthday, the door skins had arrived from England. Got them from a terrific restoration shop, Classic Heros. Love their address:

Coles Hall Barn
Five Ashes
Mayfield

I can just see Bilbo and Samwise walking through the meadow.

As I unpacked the door skins, wrapped in a lifetime supply of bubble wrap, I noticed many little spots where the primer was worn or scratched. In other places this would not pose a problem, but in Hawaii that bare steel will start to rust right away. I wanted to cover the bare spots with enamel, to really keep to moisture out, but it was raining so I could not shoot paint outside, and there was a nice car in the next stall. I wiped all the bare spots with Acetone, then shot them with POR-15 etching primer and called it a day.


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