I'll be honest given that COVID has shut down the gyms
in this country, for a period of time
[Loud motorbikes passing by the house while I'm trying to speak]
Any more?
One more.
We're september now, it means winter's only a few months away.
Because of that the weather's gonna start changing.
That got me thinking, because i've obviously
the black bits are letting the car down. It looks great otherwise
other than these faded black bits. Now I was intending to
paint them. So sanding, painting, primer, all that sort of stuff
until someone told me that actually I could use T-Cut
and it would save me the hassle of painting them. I was a bit dubious about
that but I thought I'd give it a go! A bottle of
tea could cost about £10, which is less than what the combined
cost of a tin of primer, paint, and lacquer would cost me.
I go into what T-Cut is, and how it works, in the accompanying article on my
website, which you'll find a link to in the description.
For this video however I want to see if it can actually sort
out these black bits without the need for painting.
[ Music playing: "Bright Time Passing" produced by The Mike Rowland Project ]
So as you can see, it does make a little bit of a difference on the first
application. And with the second application it makes
a little bit more of a difference too. We're on the right road at least with this stuff!
[ Music playing: "Bright Time Passing" produced by The Mike Rowland Project ]
So what you've seen there it was about
40 minutes of Mr. Miyagi's wax on, wax off method.
Which has left the black bits looking looking like this.
I think, not that I can see, it looks better on camera
than it does up close. I'll try and show you what it is actually like as
much to the naked eye. But you know what? It's been on there
for a week, we've had changeable weather for the past week.
It's been raining, it's been hot weather like it is today, and
cold, and it doesn't look too bad. However it's
not perfect. Given that COVID has shut the gyms
down for a while, I don't think I need to renew my
membership because it's a very labour-intensive process.
What you saw there was five or seven passes
of the cloth doing that wax on my wax off method.
But you know what? For the winter I'm gonna leave it. I'm going to do the other
side at some point next week but I'm going to
leave this for the winter to see how it
stands up to the, hopefully, not too bad winter that
we're going to get. Then we'll see in about February or
March time whether it's any good or not you know?
I still think I do need to paint it, but given that it's made such an
improvement anyway compared to the other side,
you know the rattle cans can can stay in the shop for a
little while longer yet!
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