So yesterday I pulled some various trim pieces off my Duster that I thought were trashed and worked 'em for several hours (much to my girlfriend's chagrin, hehehe) with grade 0000 steel wool, then polished 'em all up with some Nevr-Dull, and they look fantastic. I never would've thought that just dry steel wool would take off as much tarnish as was on there. The parts look almost new, compared to being so tarnished that I initially thought they were just grey painted plastic. There's still alot of pitting though, so eventually I'm just going to have them rechromed.

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'74 Duster w/ HEI ignition, beat to snot suspension, A904, 8.25" 3.55 SG rear, still being tuned up and gets 17 MPG

Know how they always build a better idiot? That's me

Just wait until you try it on glass. You wouldn't think it, but it does wonders....

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http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y128/slantasaurus/

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Add a little WD40 to this equation and it works even better.

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For what, using it on glass? My windshield is pretty trashed, but if I can clean it up good, I can hold out a while longer on replacing it...

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'74 Duster w/ HEI ignition, beat to snot suspension, A904, 8.25" 3.55 SG rear, still being tuned up and gets 17 MPG

Know how they always build a better idiot? That's me

I wouldn't use the WD-40 on the glass, but steel wool and newspaper are the best things I've found for cleaning up old glass....learned that when I worked in a body shop, just out of HS. I think pat ment WD-40 on the trim pieces.

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There are 3 things that will live forever, cockroaches, Keith Richards, and Slant Six Dusters !!!

http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y128/slantasaurus/

take a look around

Steel wool on glass? I would think it could scratch it... Can you explain further? My windshield could use so work too.

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"A girl can fix stuff too! (sometimes.)"

Not to hyjack the thread.
But is this how they get the haze off a windshield??
What do you use the newspaper for???
Thanks
Frank

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82 D150
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Dry newspaper works great for cleaning glass, just grab a few sheets, wad them up and start wiping.
I'm not sure what kind of haze you mean, if you are talking about the "milky white" that shows up around the edges of our old windshields, that is the glass delaminating from the plastic layer inside....nothing you can do except replace, I know, I need to replace the windshield in my Duster because it's starting to do that.

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There are 3 things that will live forever, cockroaches, Keith Richards, and Slant Six Dusters !!!

http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y128/slantasaurus/

take a look around

Steel wool, even the finest 0000 grade, will scratch glass. The scratches are fine and will tend to show up clearly only when light (sun, headlights...) hits the glass at particular angles, but they'll be there. Finest-grade bronze wool is safer because it's softer, so you have more margin between removing whatever is caked onto the glass, and creating scratches. But it's still possible to scratch glass with bronze wool if you use too coarse a grade, if you scrub too hard, if you don't work "wet" (water or oil or preferably glass wax) or if whatever you're trying to remove from the glass is abrasive...
...ask me and my windshield how I know this...


(as an aside, Glass Wax is costly but completely amazing stuff. Nothing else cleans glass quite as well. Anyone else familiar with it?)

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I don't know if it is the same stuff, but I have been using "Gold Seal" brand "Glass Wax", forever. Really at least 40 years. The last can I got about 2 years ago at a local hardware store. Cost was $3.79 for 16 oz.
Distributed by Reckitt & Colman, Wayne N.J.

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65 Valiant 100 2dr post 170 turbo
66 Valiant Signet 170 nitrous
64 Valiant Signet
64 Valiant 4dr 170
64 Valiant 4dr 225

That's the stuff. But, last time I checked, Reckitt had discontinued Glass Wax because they want consumers to buy their overpriced blue-dyed soapy water instead ("Glass Plus"). Hence the emergence of "Window Wax" and other marked-up workalikes for Glass Wax. You can still find the genuine article...?

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

Glass wax rocks!

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'72 Duster 198 stock cam, 3:23's Hookers on jack stands for 8 years in the driveway
'79 Maxivan 360 Offy Qjet Comp RV cam/rusting in the driveway.
93 D350 160HP Cummins Auto Dually Clubcab needs a injector pump
2005 Golden Couch Buick

"tis true I was referring to rusted chrome and other metals. It brings up bicycle rims like you've never seen. I would absolutely never use steel wool on glass, just plain newspaper and vinegar/water solution work good for me and that's what I've seen professional detailers use so I like to copy them.

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It was "invented" by the same guy that "invented" Mr. Bubble, Harold Schafer. Harold, and his son, Ed, were pretty incredible philanthropists in my home state of North Dakota. Ed was star of the American Junk Yard Wars, as well as governor for 8 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Schafer

It is sad to see glass wax discontinued, as it did work really well, and it isn't replaced by something better.
My family did some projects for one of their concerns, their small tourist town of Medora, ND.

There is some stainless steel wool around which works better, lasts longer, and doesn't rust like standard steel wool. However I wouldn't use it under any ordinary circumstances because if a stray particle gets loose and lodged in the wrong place, like some part of your body for example; lungs, etc., not to mention the car, it might cause you problems the rest of your life. And, the nickel in the stainless steel is toxic to boot. Ordinary steel wool is good because it rusts so easily, and a stray particle will quickly go away by itself even if the doctor can't find it.

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1966 Dart 273 1966 Barracuda 273
1969 Dart 225
'64-170 engine '66-170 engine
(two) 198 crank/rod sets in custom-fitted wooden boxes

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