#thereturnofroxanne

[frenchgoat]

Jan. 22nd, 2016: I’ve been finding myself frequently wandering into the basement to chip away at the housing for 10-15 minutes at a time. Just brushing on a small dab of paint thinner, then some elbow grease with a 3M pad or a steel brush. It’s coming out quite well. Now as soon as it stops snowing I’ll be able to dig the transmission out the snow on the porch and get going with the main body.

[frenchgoat]

Jan. 21st, 2016: Ahead of winter blizzard Jonas, I managed to get everything I needed to at least start the transmission restoration. FINALLY after years of that terrible puke yellow paint staring me in the face I’ll be able to strip it away once and for all.

Once upon a time I managed to get my hands on a 1972 Pontiac Luxury Lemans project and used air plane paint remover extensively, luckily I learned a lot since then - what I mean by that is... notice there is no aerosol applicator in the picture. Furthermore there was a nice quite before the storm, no wind, no rain, nothing, in fact the weather was quite pleasant save for the temperature. Nothing a few layers wouldn’t take care of.

Before I knew it I was starting to lose light. I managed three layers in between scrapings. The garden hose had frozen from the previous weeks of cold weather so I used a solvent and wiped down the transmission before letting her air out on the porch. By the end of the night I had the housing in the basement and the transmission nicely wrapped up in a tarp on the porch.