{"id":1053,"date":"2025-10-10T11:36:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gtyurkon.com\/MC850\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2025-10-10T12:22:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:22:54","slug":"prepping-fenders-and-trunk-lid-for-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtyurkon.com\/MC850\/2025\/10\/10\/prepping-fenders-and-trunk-lid-for-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepping Fenders and Trunk Lid for Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sandblasting<\/strong><\/p>\n

The trusty Harbor Freight sandblaster was put to work on cleaning the fenders and trunk lid. Figure 1 shows the pile of coal slag blasted fenders.<\/p>\n\n

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1. Pile of Media Blasted Fenders<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n

Phosphate and Zinc Treatment<\/strong><\/p>\n

The media cleaned fenders and trunk lid next were treated with Eastwood After Blast, a phosphate\/zinc coating product. See Figure 2.<\/p>\n\n

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2. Eastwood After Blast on Fender<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

Figures 3 and 4 below show the treated fenders and trunk lid after drying.<\/p>\n\n

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3. Fenders after Treatment<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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4. Trunk Lid After Treatment<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

To ensure there was no phosphoric acid residue which might negatively affect paint, all of the treated items were given a baking soda wash and scrub as seen in Figure 5.<\/p>\n\n

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5. Baking Soda Wash<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

The fenders and trunk lid were dried under sunlight as seen in Figure 6, then stored inside to await painting day.<\/p>\n\n

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6. Fenders Baking in Sun<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n

The next post will be about painting.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sandblasting The trusty Harbor Freight sandblaster was put to work on cleaning the fenders and trunk lid. Figure 1 shows the pile of coal slag blasted fenders. Phosphate and Zinc Treatment The media cleaned fenders and trunk lid next were treated with Eastwood After Blast, a phosphate\/zinc coating product. See Figure 2. Figures 3 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtyurkon.com\/MC850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtyurkon.com\/MC850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtyurkon.com\/MC850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtyurkon.com\/MC850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtyurkon.com\/MC850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gtyurkon.com\/MC850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/gtyurkon.com\/MC850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtyurkon.com\/MC850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtyurkon.com\/MC850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtyurkon.com\/MC850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtyurkon.com\/MC850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}