John Moore's Journal

I've been busy with several projects at one. The biggest was the windshield. I've always admired the chrome look of the windshield frames of the early cars, so I decided to remove the anodizing from mine. First with 800, 1000 then 1200 wet sand paper. I finished it off with white rouge on a buffing wheel. Mirror finish! It was beautiful. I was concerned that I needed to seal it, so after seeking advice on the BBS I chose a POR-15 clear coat called Glisten. It turned out to be a nightmare! The etching coat left the mirror finish hazy and the glisten, didn't flow every well. It looked like a mess. The next morning before it hardened I removed it with Goof Off and finally Oven Cleaner. I had to start over again with sand paper and the buffing wheel, but eventually got the mirror like finish back. I've since decided to leave it bare and polish regularly with Mother's Aluminum polish. Assembling the windshield was a BEAR! $*(@)*!# I've done a few and they are NO fun. This time I used a "personal lubricant", Astroglide, rather than soap and it worked pretty good. It was super slippery! And it's water based so it washed right off. Right now I have the windshield sitting on the car, stretching out the frame to body seal. I used all new rubber from MacGregor.