mr. fix it
Old Man with a Hat
So after seeing how @Ross Wooldridge had repainted his dash pieces in his 66 Monaco I decided to step up for the few dollars and hours of elbow grease needed to clean up the dash pieces and bring them back to OE as much as possible.
He had mentioned that Easy-Off oven cleaner was a good way to gently strip paint of of plastic pieces so I gave it a go after following around for about 4 hours on the glove box panel.
I have to say I'm very happy with the results of the stripping so far.
It takes about 2 hours to soften up the paint and then using water and a firm plastic bristle brush it comes pretty much right off.
I used a micro flat bladed screw driver to clean out the grooves.
These pieces have been painted 4 colours previously with no real attempt to remove the previous coats even nicely sprayed onto the plastic lenses as a nice touch to dull the clarity
The detail on these panels is incredible!
I'm also redoing the gauges as well and touched up the needles to cover any fading
I'm not quite ready for paint just yet but should be by the weekend
The final pic is the glove box ready for paint.
He had mentioned that Easy-Off oven cleaner was a good way to gently strip paint of of plastic pieces so I gave it a go after following around for about 4 hours on the glove box panel.
I have to say I'm very happy with the results of the stripping so far.
It takes about 2 hours to soften up the paint and then using water and a firm plastic bristle brush it comes pretty much right off.
I used a micro flat bladed screw driver to clean out the grooves.
These pieces have been painted 4 colours previously with no real attempt to remove the previous coats even nicely sprayed onto the plastic lenses as a nice touch to dull the clarity
The detail on these panels is incredible!
I'm also redoing the gauges as well and touched up the needles to cover any fading
I'm not quite ready for paint just yet but should be by the weekend
The final pic is the glove box ready for paint.