Last night I put another coat of wax on the hood. First time in two months. It soaked up the wax and buffed-up to a nice hard shine. Today, I spent many hours in the workshop removing the existing town name, Salisbury, from the dial and then continuing to clean up the grime on the dial. I only got about halfway with the clean up and will get back to that in the next day or so. I plan to go to Lowe's tomorrow to see if I can find a small can of egg-shell paint to touch-up the spots remaining on the dial. For some reason, the paint can come off the dial where the back-side has a weld from the posts that hold the dial to the movement. Some were already poorly painted over and another two newer ones are just bare metal. I could paint the entire dial, but I'll likely leave that for my son to do one day. I continue to put coats of wax on the hood door as I am waiting to add the dial door knob and the putty, both of which are in-hand. I was able to find some walnut-colored putty that should work fine. I have two knobs. My wife likes one and I like the other. Enjoy the pics below! click to enlarge.
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June 2016
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