Restoring 66 Satellite trunk panel

[AR67GTX]

I picked up a used trunk panel several years ago that was in fair condition but had one dented area along the top that I mostly massaged out some tim ago. I decided to finally get around to finishing it. First thing was to strip the anodizing use lye crystals and a dipping tray an air conditioner mechanic friend made for me.

Submerged for 35 minutes

Out of the stripper

Rinsed off

Working over numerous dings and sanding down for polishing. Realized I forgot to remove all the paint in the letters which protects the anodizing from the stripper so had to go back and touch those areas up. Sanded down to 2500.

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After polishing with two grades of compound and cleaning with Mothers aluminum polish. I didn’t sand out every last ripple in the flat panel areas or polish those areas as they get a flat silver paint.

Masking off for paint

I’ll try and paint in the next couple days using a light coat of SEM etching primer and Krylon 1403 dull metallic silver in the flat areas and red in the stripping areas

 

[dadsbee]

Not sure what you're cleaning with... but that Mother's probably has silicon in it so make sure you've cleaned it a 100 times b4 paint.

 

[AR67GTX]

Not sure what you're cleaning with... but that Mother's probably has silicon in it so make sure you've cleaned it a 100 times b4 paint.

I think it does have something along those lines in it. I wiped down all the areas to get paint multiple times with 99% isopropyl alcohol. May hit it with prepsol before I paint.

Thanks

 

[gtx6970]

Following along here.

The panel on my car was NOS when installed
But I have a pretty decent spare I picked up last year I want to try my hand at restoring,,,Basically Just because I want to

 

[AR67GTX]

Painted it this morning and it came out fine. I’m going to have to let the paint harden a few days before doing the lettering as the black was trying to melt into the flat silver.

 

[AR67GTX]

Following along here.

The panel on my car was NOS when installed
But I have a pretty decent spare I picked up last year I want to try my hand at restoring,,,Basically Just because I want to

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Looks like my red is a little darker than yours. Kind of hard to figure off of computer pictures the exact shade sometimes. Polished aluminum loses some of the softness in appearance of the original anodizing - looks a little more like chrome. But if not 100% correct it will match the tail light bezels very well.

 

[gtx6970]

Best way Ive found to do the lettering
Is spray some black into a cup,
Pull it up with a hypodermic needle and then flow it out in the depressed letters
It takes a few times to get it a full dark black

No tapes lines or brush marks that way