More work on Big Blue - Getting the floor ready...
Yesterday started with much of the same as Monday. After a trip to the car wash to vacuum out the crap that I finished with Monday night, I went back to sanding. I stopped into the hardware store and picked up this attachment for my drill, which worked well;
Here is the result:
So after another trip to the car wash and a quick rub down with mineral spirits, the floor was ready to go.
First was plugging the old drain hole with some waterproof, dries-hard-as-a-rock plumber's putty. Not sure how it will work but the guy at the hardware store said he loved it for things like this, so I thought I'd try it.
Here's what it looked like...
An effort to control the spray...
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And the start of the application...
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I stopped where it is above since I was running out of daylight and wanted to make sure everything would dry before the dew set in.
With some time on my hands, I decided to take out the old radio (which doesn't work). I've had a new radio to put in for months but need to complete the new wood for the doors (thus, new speakers). I should have waited. It became a huge deal and I was soon in the dark halfway through the job.
I have a hard time taking things apart that don't have obvious screws and bolts. A few weeks back, I was trying to take the fans out of an old laptop we were throwing away for my father-in-laws beer brewing, and I destroyed the keyboard before I figured out how to remove it. You can tell by the pile below that I had a similar problem with the radio...
I was happy to see very little rust back there...
...but was unhappy to see the nest of wires. Oh, man....
1 comments:
Nice progress!
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