An Electrolux AE is reborn!!!!!

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Iv'e been struggling for about six months on this project. I wanted to replicate the hammertone finish machines came with way back when, with products available now...First some before pictures of an Ebay Lux AE that I got in April.

 

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you can see that

It's pretty beat up and a dog chewed the anti-tip over. A wheel (cleaverly hidden on Ebay pics is busted)...

 

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Rusted

Inside and out....

 

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another viev

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Bondo, Bondo Bondo....

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another view

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Primer coat

I used a similar color with the same properties as the Hammertone to help in color depth

 

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Hammertone

I worked out a method of application and tinting, thinning, to get the stuff to do what I wanted it to do.

 

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And the can....

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lettering and intermediate coats

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Mock-up to see

if I liked the way it was turning out

 

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Cleaning, polishing, and displaying of

components

 

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Glamour Shots

by itself...

 

[aeoliandave]

WOW!!!! I'm dumbfounded and speechless with admiration, Rick.

 

[vacuumkid3]

Positively and ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!! I just will never know how you did it! I still haven't located a good paint for my A-W 77, however...I might just have to deal with it and get something that is not exactly right. Oh, well!

~~K~~

 

[petek]

Geeze us, that looks fantastic. You must have the patience and talent of Job. I'd have given up long ago.