I’ve been planning the next phase of assembly….exterior trim, seals, etc and taking stock of what I have, what to buy, and what to refurbish. Not my favorite part of the project.
I’m getting mostly new aluminum trim, and chrome bumpers as I’m finding the cost and time of renewing what I have doesn’t make sense.
Two areas that I’m focused on now are chrome grilles and vent window frames…
Found a shop that will do bright dip anodization so will send my shallow bucket side grilles and kidney grille there after removing slats and sanding down/polishing some areas that need it. Really time consuming, but feel like that will work out ok.
I’m more perplexed about what to do about vent window frames. The windows and seals are fine, but the cloudy aluminum frames are going to stand out against the adjacent new trim.
Would need to remove window, seals and all steel items for anodization of aluminum pieces. That would require complete disassembly…drilling 7? Steel rivets, get alum anodized, polish up chrome pieces..probably new seals..reassembly…etc, etc.
That seems like an incredible amount of work for brightening up bit of aluminum trim in well-working vent windows.
Any other options that don’t require any disassembly??
Vince