So this installment will look much the same as the last one. But here I coated all the FG'd areas with 3M 5895, a flexible, sandable epoxy (designed mostly for fixing plastic bumper covers). Cool stuff. You have to mix it in small batches because the work time is only 5 mins. It sands nicely, almost like filler, but seems to retain a significant amount of flexibility. It ain't cheap, but this batch came compliments of my friend Rus, who'd bought it for an Alfa dash restoration, but then got wise and bought a beautiful repro dash for his GTV. A sign of superior intelligence, methinks.
It looks kinda shiny before you start sanding:
I was knocking back the ridges and shaping with 80 grit, then moved to 120. This stuff doesn't load up the Norton paper I'm using, which is a bonus.
I had at least another ten hours in this between yesterday and today.
At one point I noticed the light gray 3M filler I'd been sanding was getting dirty from my bench after I'd been moving and turning it around. So I better prepped the worktop:
PS: The Ferrari/Maserati sign on my wall: I never worked at that specific dealership, but I did work at another location belonging to the same ownership group. One day the facilities guy rolled up with this sign and asked, "What's wrong with this?" It's pretty obvious. He was about to throw it in the dumpster but I thought it too good to waste. Can you spot the deficiency?
Tomorrow's episode: I'll work on what I hope will be a tidy solution for the defroster vents atop the dash, and ... the sanding continues.
John