I have a new favorite tool of metal destruction, but more on that later 🙂 1) Started with cleaning the “Elephant” oil filler cap today: – Tools of choice: old toothbrush, acetone and the oil filler cap: got inspired by inzane’s blog, probably i’ll highlight the textures too (like he did). kinda like it. but here’s the result for now – really like it! and the o-ring looks good, so no replacement needed 🙂 2) now back to my new favorite metal tool.. – this is how the taillight-cutouts looked about an hour ago – still a lot of “wrong” metal there from the attempt to add different taillights (some…

1) Im still busy planning and ordering a lot of stuff, so no progress at the car itself. anyway, was looking for a few “rare” parts for the datsun and figured out i alleady have a “sought after” part on my Zed: the genuine “Elephant” oil filler cap: actually i got that feel it isn’t too rare, there are several similar caps for sale on ebay, pretty cheap. anyway, it was a kind of limited item so i’ll clean it up and re-use it. specially like the japanese lettering 😀 2) after reading about THIS Hakosuka on speedhunters i was curious about the watanabe steering wheel. checked the 2009 watanabe…

Today we had some nice (but cold) weather, and it has been a while since i spent som time at the garage. You all know saturdays are made exactly for this, so i had to 🙂 1) The powder-coating guys missed to poweder a few hard-to-reach points on those parts so i decided to clean those parts and paint them before rust gets them: Before: After: 2) I decided to test my new Stone-tumbler, so i had to assamble it first: installed and “rattling”: My first attempt with walnut-shells and a few test-screws: Actually the result sucks because after reading the manual i figured out i’d also need a special…

Yeah, you remember i tried to get those OEM screws cleaned from rust and old paint and stuff? nothing really worked, so i followed your inputs and bought myself a cheap stone-tumbler from ebay with some walnut-shell grain 😀 hope this works. the walnut-shell’s came for free with the tumbler, so if this won’t work i might use some more specific stuff for cleaning metal. have to try it soon 🙂