Well, I re-installed my dash data plates without touching them. But I also took a shot at restoring the Warning plate on the passenger inner fenderwell as it had no paint on it when I got it and you couldn't read it. I had sprayed it gloss black a few weeks ago and then restored it this afternoon. I ended up scraping the paint off the border with my fingernail and then looked all over for something really small I could wrap some 2000 grit paper around to start removing the paint from the letters. I didn't find anything that worked and ended up just using finger pressure on the sandpaper. 2000 grit is so fine it didn't remove any paint from the unraised areas and when it did touch those areas it just dulled the black....it didn't go thru it. Once I had all the letters uncovered there were spots in the black areas that the paper hit that were dull black. So I wiped all the black areas with the sandpaper to make it evenly dull black and when done I hit it with a flat clear and re-installed. It's not perfect, but for 10 minutes of work it's at least readable and looks a lot better than before. It looks a bit old, not like it was just restored.........which I like. Enjoy!
I went first class all the way........Rustoleum gloss black rattle can for the background and Krylon flat clear for the ultimate in protection. Hey........it was just an experiment......I didn't think it would turn out looking halfway decent.
Now that I see it comes out so nice I'll use POR-15 gloss black next time and not hesitate to hit it with a more aggressive sandpaper. And I'll mask the border!
Did you try the POR-15? I love this stuff, but I would think it would get too hard to remove on the data plates.... I don't know how well it adheres to brass, but that stuff has grip!!
1951 M38 restoration project - Flightline Jeep MC 23923 DoD 6-51
1954 M-100 Trailer USMC Dunbar Kapple s/n M-750759 DoD 1-54
1947 Willys CJ2A - Harvest Green
1954 Ford F-100 Parts chaser - blueprinted Y-Block
Southeast Florida
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