hey mister
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- Jun 15, 2024
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- Location
- North Coast
- First Name
- Marty
- Truck Year
- 1978
- Truck Model
- C10
- Engine Size
- 350
Last year I got a set of those smoke tinted window things.
Read the instructions and carefully positioned them, just right, before peeling off the sticky tape backing.
This truck has no A/C so it's always windows down and vents out to the stops....that is until the wing windows now hit those smoke plastic things. Well, buggers!
This past weeks heat wave has motivated me to carve out some relief areas in the plastic so the wing windows can swing out to the stops.
I'll tell ya, it ain't easy whittling on that stuff. And the temptation to take the 4" disc grinder to it, is hard to resist, but knowing that would end in disaster, kept me from doing that.
So rat tail file and sand paper was how it started out. That was very slow going, but nothing was getting destroyed either. I kept thinking, man, I need a tool that peels a tiny strip off at a time. On the passenger side it hit me...I went and grabbed my Vargus deburring tool. Used correctly you can peel a steel curl off the edge of a plate and smoke goes with it. They are a great tool and I've had a few.
It took a couple of attempts but soon cute long plastic curls were falling off.
Before I knew it, the passenger side was done...and nothing was destroyed either....which is a good thing.
It's been a few years since I bought a deburring tool and I have not looked up the cost, but not scratching glass or paint or melting the plastic might be worth the cost when compared to the damage.
Read the instructions and carefully positioned them, just right, before peeling off the sticky tape backing.
This truck has no A/C so it's always windows down and vents out to the stops....that is until the wing windows now hit those smoke plastic things. Well, buggers!
This past weeks heat wave has motivated me to carve out some relief areas in the plastic so the wing windows can swing out to the stops.
I'll tell ya, it ain't easy whittling on that stuff. And the temptation to take the 4" disc grinder to it, is hard to resist, but knowing that would end in disaster, kept me from doing that.
So rat tail file and sand paper was how it started out. That was very slow going, but nothing was getting destroyed either. I kept thinking, man, I need a tool that peels a tiny strip off at a time. On the passenger side it hit me...I went and grabbed my Vargus deburring tool. Used correctly you can peel a steel curl off the edge of a plate and smoke goes with it. They are a great tool and I've had a few.
It took a couple of attempts but soon cute long plastic curls were falling off.
Before I knew it, the passenger side was done...and nothing was destroyed either....which is a good thing.
It's been a few years since I bought a deburring tool and I have not looked up the cost, but not scratching glass or paint or melting the plastic might be worth the cost when compared to the damage.
