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Subject: [Mgs] Paint care
From: max_heim at sbcglobal.net (Max Heim)
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:42:28 -0700
on 4/29/11 11:37 AM, Douglas McKinnie at d.mckinnie at usa.net wrote:

> I never did find a fuel-filter in my fuel system, so I've just been using
> gumout with every fill and hoping that fuel-starvation problem goes away.
> I've
> also switched to a filling-station that advertises "ethanol free" gas.

Umm, why don't you just put a filter inline?
 
> Now I am concerned about the flat and faded look of my red paint. I've got a
> random-orbital polisher,but I've never bothered with waxing and polishing
> before.
> 
> My understanding is that the car polish is to cut through and remove the
> oxidised layer, and then I need to wax the car to make it shiny and protect
> the newly-exposed paint. Am I on the right track?

I would think so. Reds can oxidize to the point they are beyond buffing,
though.
 


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires




> Douglas
> 70 MGB-GT
> Murfreesboro, TN

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