Aluminum Half Hump Power Nozzle

[rodknock95]

I tried polishing one of these that were originally painted silver for a Silverado

 

[human]

If that's your finished product, then congratulations are in order. You did an excellent job. Seriously, it's not easy to get the paint off of one of those.

I set out to do that to one of mine a couple of years ago but I eventually up and repainted it with Rust-Oleum hammer tone metallic paint and primer in one. The 'black' color is actually sort of a gunmetal gray, a little darker than the original Silverado gray but very acceptable. There's also a bronze color that should look pretty nice for an Olympia brown nozzle. The textured finish makes it absolutely the most forgiving spray paint I've ever used. Just for good measure, I masked off the raised nameplate area, which was the only part I had managed to put any degree of shine on. The end result was very pleasing, although far from what I had originally intended. It's a subtle custom that could almost pass for original in that it looks like something that Electrolux might have (and perhaps should have) done.

 

[vac-o-matic]

Both of those look great!

 

[huskyvacs]

That paintjob looks great human, from the photo it also looks like it could pass as a 1990's plastic PN head too.

 

[human]

Thanks. The photo really doesn't do it justice. It was a fun afternoon project to cap off about three days of sanding. Even if I didn't manage to get all the paint off of it, I did end up with some really good surface prep, which is the secret to any good paint job.