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Cleaned, polished (somewhat) but not quite finished...


So I decided to do a little polishing after my last post and I ended up getting it looking pretty good. Not perfect, mind you, but not too shabby. The metal has a nice shine to it but there's still some 'freckling'. I used my standby combo of alternating between Nevr Dull wadding and Mother's with the buffing wheel on my cordless drill. I did add one new thing, which was a cheapo scrubbing pad (came in a 10-pack from the Dollar Tree), sort of like a Scotch Brite pad but maybe a third as abrasive. Buffing lightly with that and Mother's took away some of the more stubborn freckling without etching the metal.


I ran into a couple of hiccups putting the thing back together, though. One of the plastic bushings for the headlight hinge was split right in half lengthwise and I tried to glue it back with a hot glue gun, basically to get everything to stick together long enough to reassemble it but I think doing that threw the geometry off slightly and now the headlight assembly catches on the edge of the main motor cover when I raise or lower it. I guess I'll have to take that apart again to see if I can fix it better. I also ended up with two long screws left over and I have no idea where they're supposed to go. I didn't see any empty screw holes, though. I hate when that stuff happens.


I still need to polish the nozzle but I'll wait until I tear it down to replace the guts of the belt lifter. I may bring the rest of the machine inside and stick a different nozzle on it to give it a test run, but not tonight.


I'll post some photos once everything is done but I have a great sense of accomplishment about what I did on it today.


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