{"id":4944,"date":"2013-10-06T21:31:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T04:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/?p=4944"},"modified":"2013-10-06T21:36:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T04:36:44","slug":"keeping-productive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/2013\/10\/keeping-productive\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Productive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, with most of my interior sent off to various shops, there wasn&#8217;t much for me to do. I took the opportunity instead to knock out a few smaller items on the list. For one, the finish on the V-Mount&#8217;s ducting wasn&#8217;t the cleanest. I had a hard time polishing it completely mirror. I removed the ducts and added a brushed look by sanding in one direction with a fine-grade scotch-brite pad. I also trimmed the top edge of the ducts with a nice seal. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/intercoolerduct.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/intercoolerduct-777x518.jpg\" alt=\"intercoolerduct\" width=\"777\" height=\"518\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4946\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/intercoolerduct-777x518.jpg 777w, http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/intercoolerduct-960x640.jpg 960w, http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/intercoolerduct.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moving towards the rear of the car, I actioned another small issue&#8230; the tow hook. The car originally came without one in the rear, so I bought it new from Mazda; however, it was unpainted and bare steel. The idea was to coat it in paint that was similar to the raw, steel color, since I actually liked the way it looked (until surface rust started forming, that is). I decided to try out Dupli-Color&#8217;s Stainless Steel paint. <\/p>\n<p>After some sanding, a few coats of self-etching primer, more sanding, and finally a few coats of the Stainless Steel&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/duplicolor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/duplicolor-777x518.jpg\" alt=\"duplicolor\" width=\"777\" height=\"518\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4945\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/duplicolor-777x518.jpg 777w, http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/duplicolor-960x640.jpg 960w, http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/duplicolor.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;the tow hook was refurbished. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/reartowhook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/reartowhook-777x515.jpg\" alt=\"reartowhook\" width=\"777\" height=\"515\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4947\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/reartowhook-777x515.jpg 777w, http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/reartowhook-960x637.jpg 960w, http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/reartowhook.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Stainless Steel paint contained a heavy mixture of metallics, which made laying down several, thicker coats difficult. I ended up having to clay bar off all the extra &#8220;grit&#8221; from the metallics once the paint was dried. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, with most of my interior sent off to various shops, there wasn&#8217;t much for me to do. I took the opportunity instead to knock out a few smaller items on the list. For one, the finish on the V-Mount&#8217;s ducting wasn&#8217;t the cleanest. I had a hard time polishing it completely mirror. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4944"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4953,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions\/4953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}