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Old 05-31-2008, 04:12 PM
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Old 05-31-2008, 04:37 PM
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Nice work. Its a change for sure
 
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Old 05-31-2008, 08:50 PM
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nice work, looks great man
 
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Old 06-01-2008, 03:44 AM
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that looks sweet.

I did mine a while back and love the look. its not hard just time consuming
 
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Old 06-01-2008, 05:08 AM
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wow 4 hrs isnt too bad at all... i spent like 5 hours polishing my heel gaurds this weekend, then again most of that time was spent knocking off the anodizing since the aircraft stripper i tried did NOTHING, what did you use to get the paint off?
 
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Old 06-01-2008, 03:42 PM
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I tryed stripping my heal guards with aircraft stripper too. i left if on for over an hour and it didnt even faze the coating. they still look bran new.
 
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Old 06-01-2008, 05:44 PM
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ok so at least im not the only one that had trouble with them lol [sm=dontgetit.gif]... the only thing that i was thinking to explain is that maybe the heel gaurds have a different paint or anodizing on there since there constantly getting rubbed by shoes and the right one getting blasted with exhaust heat. I gave up on the stripper after the 3rd time i tried leaving it on for a half hour. So i resorted to 180 grit paper, which took 3 hours each to get it off [:@]
 
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Old 06-02-2008, 10:01 PM
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Not bad!! Looks good.

I have about 8hrs in mine with dissasembly, taping, retaping (dont ask), reassembly.

My heel gaurds took about 20minutes each to get the coating off of them. Use a DA Sander and 800grit. Then start using a lighter cutting paper. Polish and wa la.thats about the end of the easy stuff. All the brackets are a differant story. Had to sand all the texture out. That sucked.
 
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