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Re: Polishing an Aluminum Roof Rack and then not- Ass Pain!

Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 10:15 pm
by CREGAN
Project complete. After a few months of dilly-dallying I finally finished restoring my roof rack. Complete tear down and rebuild with a lot of new hardware.

I had a bit of a pain trying to get the rubber to stick to the bottom of the feet. i have a hunch that it will only last this summer. Thinking ahead I bough a can of Plasti-Dip to use on it when I redo that.
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Here is the finished product. Some powder coating, lots of Autosol, and a few swears later and I think it turned out pretty good.
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Only had the rachet slip once and put a sweet scratch and dent in the roof. Glad it is done though as I really am ready to move on to another project :-)

Craig

Re: Polishing an Aluminum Roof Rack and then not- Ass Pain!

Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 11:05 pm
by psilosin
The ass pain was worth it...looks like new.

Re: Polishing an Aluminum Roof Rack and then not- Ass Pain!

Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 12:15 am
by FalcoColumbarius
Good job, Cregan. I think the black towers really set it off with the window frames, etc.. Very elegant.

Falco.

Re: Polishing an Aluminum Roof Rack and then not- Ass Pain!

Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 3:44 pm
by CREGAN
Argh. Ass-Pain has returned. Noticed one of the corners was loose so I decided to tighten the bolt. In theory this seems easy and straight forward but in my general everyday practice it is not. I managed to snap off the bolt. Awesome. So I drilled the inside of it out but there is still a bit of it in there that I cannot get out so I am going to visit CT later and pick up a tap and die set, as well as a new bolt, to correct yet another mistake. If I left hings well enough alone I would have nothing to do.

Craig