9/3/2006: Bumper Assembly
Several weeks back, I received my chrome back from the platers.
For the most part I’m happy with the results- the bumpers look great,
as do all of the steel parts.
The more heavily pitted pot metal parts had more mixed results. In
some cases, too much detail was lost when they ground the parts down.
In others, too much chrome/copper buildup made them difficult to
reassemble.
But on the whole, I’m happy with the results. I can work with what I
have, or can try again with those parts that did not come out
acceptably.
I’ve started to put some of the chomed parts together, so that I can
set the complete assemblies aside somewhere safe until the car is
ready for them.
The first task was to put the front and rear bumpers together. Each
is composed of three parts, a main bumper and two overriders.
The back sides of these parts were only lightly cleaned up before
plating, so they are quite pitted and even a little rusty. I felt it
was wise to paint them to prevent this rust from returning.
I wanted to use a rust preventative paint, and a silver topcoat. I
initially thought about using silver POR-15 paint, but I ultimately chose
to use Eastwood’s
Rust Encapsulator instead. Like POR, it claims to work well on
rough or surface-rusted surfaces and seal them completely. Unlike
POR, it comes in spraycan form, doesn’t stink horribly, and is not
sensitive to UV light. (POR-15 has to be top-coated or it will turn
chalky if exposed to sunlight).
After a few coats of the Rust Encapsulator black paint, I topcoated
with Reflective
Aluminum spraypaint, also from Eastwood.
The results are obviously not chrome-like (the interior surfaces
weren’t smooth or polished) but they’re at least silver and should be
relatively well protected.
Assembling the overriders to the main bumpers was pretty
straightforward. The only real challlenge was finding a replacement
for the plastic edging between the two pieces.
The original material (on the left below) was a hard (but flexible)
plastic. It turns out to be almost identical to plastic door
edging, such as the “reduced size black” edging, available from Protekto.
I opted to switch to rubber instead. I figured it would be easier to
fit and trim, and would look fine. I can always switch this later if
it doesn’t work out. The rubber edging I ended up using came from
McMaster-Carr. The part number
was 8507K36 (neoprene rubber edge trim, 1/16” opening, 11/64” inside
depth).
While I was at McMaster’s website, I also purchased a 6 inch length of
rubber tubing, which I can cut into slices to make new bushings to fit
between the bumpers and the body.
Here it is side by side with the original:
As you can see, the center hole is smaller, but it’s still larger than
the bolt, so I may not have to enlarge it at all. We’ll see when it
comes time to put the bumpers on the car.
The part number for this tubing was 8637K181 (neoprene spring rubber
tubing, 1-3/8” OD, 3/8” ID, 75A durometer)
Chrome is hard to photograph, so I don’t have any pictures of the
finished bumpers at the moment. It’s not that exciting anyway- they
look like shiny bumpers.
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