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In a message dated 9/12/99 9:26:30 PM, Brent Regan wrote:

<<In my plane I formed all the lines, removed them, polished them with
Scotchbrite and painted them with clear Krylon before flushing them with
shop air and reinstalling them.>>

I haven't looked at Brent's plane closeup, but it must be a beauty.  Also in the above-and-beyond category, I took my control pushrod tubing and had the tubes alodined at a local metal finishing shop.  It cost about $40 for the whole bundle, done all at once.  The completed pushrods then get powder coated, which costs a little more.  I admit it's a little "over the top" but it looks cool, provides better corrosion protection than I could do myself, doesn't weigh any more, and doesn't cost much.

Along these lines, what little tricks are the rest of y'all doing?  I'm most interested in inexpensive, light-or-zero-weight, not too terribly time consuming enhancements here.  Burnishing a stainless firewall, for example, would be an example of this.

- Rob Wolf


[I engine turned my firewall, it was a fun (albeit time-consuming) process
that really looks nice... total cost was about 5 bucks for a stack of Scotchbrite pads.  I've also been anodizing all of my brackets as I get them done, will probably do the control rods as well to keep everything looking the same.  You're right, low cost enhancements can and do add quite a bit to the finished product (IMHO) and I'm trying to
do as many of them as I can. Thanks for bringing it up.     <Marv>    ]

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