Thanks Michael for bringing this up.
The grille is original to the car and
a perfect fit. I'll get in touch with Curt after the holidays and figure out
where to send it for chroming. It seems that a shop with experience with
these grilles would be very beneficial or a high-end chrome restoration shop
at least.
Bert
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From: Michael MacLean
<rrengineer.mike@att.net>
To: Curtis Arndt <cnaarndt@gmail.com>
Cc: Bert Van
Brande <bertvanbrande@yahoo.com>; List Healey <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent:
Sunday, December 23, 2012 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Healey Milestone
Curt,
To tell the truth. I spent over $1700 getting a final grill to use.
After buying a couple of "project" grills off Ebay that did not work out and
buying Moss' idea of a replacement grill (wrong shape for the surround) I
finally got a decent one with a bent surround that I sent to Rich. All the
while I was intending on getting the grill finished before the body work.
Your points are valid, it's just not the way I did it.
Mike
--- On Mon,
12/24/12, Curtis Arndt <cnaarndt@gmail.com> wrote:
>From: Curtis Arndt
<cnaarndt@gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [Healeys] Healey Milestone
>To: "Michael
MacLean" <rrengineer.mike@att.net>
>Cc: "Bert Van Brande"
<bertvanbrande@yahoo.com>, "List Healey" <healeys@autox.team.net>
>Date:
Monday, December 24, 2012, 4:35 AM
>
>
>Mike ,
>
>Just think of this... Rich's
metal guy spends a lot of time straightening your surround and then sends it
to the polisher, who catches it in the buffing wheel and turns it into a
pretzel. The polishers are sometimes the lowest paid "grunt" work employees
in a plating shop, I've seen this happen before. So all I'm saying is to
polish the surround while it's supported by the rest of the grill. Harder to
get it twisted and caught in the buffing wheel and less likely to warp the
thin brass due to the heat of polishing.
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