ok guys...time for an update. Been about 2 weeks since the last.
When I left off...I had finished cleaning up the rust stains as good as I could by using Cerama Bryte and steel wool. I did make the bowl appear cleaner.
So here is where I was at then. I wanted to make this grill visually better, but not do a complete touchup with yellow paint. My goals isn't to make this grill something it really isn't. Let's face it. This grill was "beat'. What I wanted to was make the chips on the bowl less horrifying...but still protect the bare areas from getting worse. I chose to spray all the chipped areas with a 2000 degree header primer. Sort of a gray color. I think the result is visually...easier to look at, and less eye catching than the black chips against the yellow finish, and hopefully protected.
Next...plug the hole from the homemade, home drilled OT hardware addition. I used some stainless hardware and washers, along with a stainless acorn nut. Fancy? No, but functional and problem solved.
Next...add 3 daisy wheels from my parts stash. Looking better yet.
Add polished legs, power washed original wheels, and economy triangle (more parts stash). The original triangle was too far gone and rusted to justify the time and effort for what the end result would be. For those of you that have really got into a bad triangle...you know all about this.
2 more hours time invested for a total of 9.0
