Please share a trick,tip,short cut to help restore or maintain our 53 to 67 vettes

[bclark]

If anyone is trying to repaint or rechrome small parts, knobs, insert panels etc. They should be stripped to bare substrate. A safe solution is to soak ( submerge ) them in 409 cleaner. Strong stuff!!!!! After a few days the chrome will just about fall off. Paint too. This does less damage than other chemicals. NEVER clean your dash or interior with this stuff.

 

[studiog]

John Z... We love thee

John Z you are a credit & treasure to the Corvette hobby.

 

[JohnZ]

Just some of the stuff you pick up after 40+ years in the OEM industry and in the hobby - most of it I learned from others over the years. When I was a kid, I spent a lot of time hanging around a local "Mom-and-Pop" independent garage, and one of the many "rules" the old gentleman mechanic taught me as he showed me the ropes was that a good mechanic never puts his tools away dirty; he wiped every tool off before it went back in the drawer, and I never forgot that "rule". He never had to "hunt" for the right tool, either. Every day should be a learning experience of some kind, or you wasted the day

 

[TWINRAY]

John Z
I'm a little disappointed in the tool box layout. One of the extensions looks like it was put back a little crooked .