Well, I have ballast temporarily secured to underside right now; works much
better; need just a little bit (Goldilocks) more. 'Sure hate to hafta haul
ballast around, but it'll work 'til I figure something better.
'Nother problem developing with the paint right now; after sitting in sun
yesterday, little bitty indented "freckles" developed all over the
horizontal surface. 'Looks like paint on rusted steel with the rust "pits"
showing through the paint. 'Sanded it a BUNCH before and between every coat
and never saw such pitting in the several coats that I put on it. May need
to take it back off and strip it to metal like I should have done
originally.
Wonder if tool rental places have paint strippers - the soda or walnut shell
type? Gonna start looking immediately after I punch SEND. 'Course, I also
have random orbital sander with enough grit to strip it, too; shoulda put
it to good use coupla months ago.
'Becoming quite a saga.
Wilton
----- Original Message -----
From: "OK Don" <okd...@gmail.com>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Fw: 126 trunk lid
One of the trunk lid springs on the 450SLC was not working (one end was
not
in it's slot), and it would almost, but not quite, hold the lid open.
Perhaps you coud disconnect one side, and see what happens?
The ither option is to find springs from the same type car that the
aluminum lid came from and replace yours.
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:42 PM, David Bruckmann <
bruckma...@transcontinental.ca> wrote:
I take it the springs can't just be moved to a different position on the
arms to change the tension (like the hood springs on 115/123?)
Wilton wrote:
>
>Yep; old one is steel; "new" one is AL. Gonna hafta add some weight to
>underside of "new" one - a pity to haul the extra weight, but I can't
>have
>it opening so violently with SWMBO or anybody else.
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