I like these hidden pieces of history you stumble on.

I was cleaning the diff cap from the posi rear I recently found. I clean it real good with something that looks like a shaved steel ball, and it gets off all the dirt, grit, and paint. But for some reason the numbers someone once wrote on the bare metal won't come off. It's pretty cool to think about how someone grabbed a marker and scribbled 342 some 34 years ago.

 

Here's a picture of my paint booth, real hi-tech stuff.

 

That looks like the Blair Witch Paint Booth.

 

hahaha

 

Oh man I can see it coming now, a new poll, show us your paint booth. ou:

Dave B

 

Thats exactly what I was thinking, scary!

 

I like looking behind the seats of old cars and finding stuff. Reciepts, money, lots of crap, and other interesting tidbits.

Oh, and when you clean the frame and find numbers on it, that's always cool too!

 

Show us the shaved steel ball! Looks like it does a nice job.

- Bill

 

we used these crayons in the bone yards that WE called lipstick
the only thing that would take it compleatly off is denatures alochohol

show us the 1/2 steel balls!!

SR66 :TU:

 

He he.. the steel balls.... They come from the 99 cent store in a package of three. The best heavy duty remover I've found so far, and they don't scratch the surface.

 

THANK GOD for pictures!! :grin:

I was wondering ...I think those classify as heavy duty steel wool

SR66 :TU:

 

Kimson, your location. Is that Los Angeles or Lower Alabama ??

 

I'm right here in tinsel town. Can see the neon Roosevelt Hotel sign up on Hollywood blvd from the kitchen window.

 

I didn't know what to call them, I thought "shaved steel ball" was pretty good.

 

Great score on that big car 3.42 unit!!! Put that in and say goodbye to that 17.21.