The Garage (What did you work on today?)

[maynard]

Quick recap of the process I used:
Wet-sanded the lights to bare plastic to get through the remaining coating using P180 grit, then progressively moved to P2000 grit to remove any scratches from earlier grits.
Cleaned up the lights, wiped them with a tack cloth and sprayed them using SprayMax 2k Headlight Clearcoat
Wet-sanded again to remove any imperfections from my lack of a spray booth, this time up to 5000 grit, then polished and coated with Cerakote.

I didn't take pictures of the process this time, but I did when restored my FJ's headlights.
After initial wet-sanding:
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After clearcoat:
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After wet-sanding the clearcoat to 5000-grit (sorry for the crazy reflections, my garage lights are in a big snowflake pattern):
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After polishing with Sonax and Meguiars, followed with Cerakote:
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Nice job!

 

[J Alynn]

Quick recap of the process I used:
Wet-sanded the lights to bare plastic to get through the remaining coating using P180 grit, then progressively moved to P2000 grit to remove any scratches from earlier grits.
Cleaned up the lights, wiped them with a tack cloth and sprayed them using SprayMax 2k Headlight Clearcoat
Wet-sanded again to remove any imperfections from my lack of a spray booth, this time up to 5000 grit, then polished and coated with Cerakote.

I didn't take pictures of the process this time, but I did when restored my FJ's headlights.
After initial wet-sanding:
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After clearcoat:
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After wet-sanding the clearcoat to 5000-grit (sorry for the crazy reflections, my garage lights are in a big snowflake pattern):
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After polishing with Sonax and Meguiars, followed with Cerakote:
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Such a cool process to see done.

 

[bwdavis7]

Good choice on the decking. I installed a good bit of it on various decks and porches when it was under the Azek name. Those little plugs are pretty awesome, but they hurt my OCD to just use them willy-nilly. Obviously, they need to be turned so the plug grain matches the decking grain, but I couldn't bring myself to use a fine-grain plug on a wide-grain board, so I sorted them to best match the decking. Take a break on the deck and hit it hard later this week with the slightly cooler weather.

I am with you on the OCD grain alignment. The Cortex hidden plugs come collated now so that you can easily align the grain.

 

[bwdavis7]

Pace yourself and great choices. If you happen to be getting it inspected (assuming you are NOT) but if you are, make sure cables are tight-they nitpick that from my experience

My neighbor let me have his cable tension gauge that he used on his cable system. Not getting inspected, but with 9 grand-kids, I want to be sure they can't squeeze through. That's the reason I don't want to go with the horizontal cables. I can see them climbing it like a cable ladder.

 

[bwdavis7]

Rough layout for about 1/3 of the under deck membrane over taped joists. The open end will have counter flowing membrane to direct water to gutter attached to cantilever beam. Some folks cut strips for each joist bay. I chose to do it the hard way and wrestle with the heavy sheets. I'll have three sections.

 

[6-ScoutFamily]

Rough layout for about 1/3 of the under deck membrane over taped joists. The open end will have counter flowing membrane to direct water to gutter attached to cantilever beam. Some folks cut strips for each joist bay. I chose to do it the hard way and wrestle with the heavy sheets. I'll have three sections.

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I saw something like this on Studpack

 

[J Alynn]

My neighbor let me have his cable tension gauge that he used on his cable system. Not getting inspected, but with 9 grand-kids, I want to be sure they can't squeeze through. That's the reason I don't want to go with the horizontal cables. I can see them climbing it like a cable ladder.

And they will. Ask me what I fell off of in 5th grade and double fractured my arm

Rough layout for about 1/3 of the under deck membrane over taped joists. The open end will have counter flowing membrane to direct water to gutter attached to cantilever beam. Some folks cut strips for each joist bay. I chose to do it the hard way and wrestle with the heavy sheets. I'll have three sections.

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Easier and cheaper doing this type of drainage system vs one of those fancy ones they sell which work well but are pricy

 

[THil08]

Did some minor disassembly on the sedan over the weekend to clean the headlights up since the coating was starting to come off and get yellow/hazy up top. Poor girl needs a bath too.

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Is that a Holden???

 

[speedrye]

Is that a Holden???

Daily driver for the past 10 years/100k. On bad-weather days, I'll drive the FJ, but on super-nice days, I'll take the Supra (all manuals). This gets the rest of the time and she's been good to me.

Older picture, but both were out of the garage for some ceiling painting: