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Author Topic: "Trailer Queen" the 1983 Limited Wagon  (Read 80119 times)

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Re: My First Eagle: 1983 Limited Wagon "Trailer Queen"
« Reply #150 on: May 15, 2012, 10:50:57 PM »
It's vinyl overlay. Is that contact paper?
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Re: My First Eagle: 1983 Limited Wagon "Trailer Queen"
« Reply #151 on: May 16, 2012, 07:28:58 PM »
HEEHEE! I had to give you crap. :)

Quote from: Prafeston on May 15, 2012, 10:50:57 PM
It's vinyl overlay. Is that contact paper?
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Re: My First Eagle: 1983 Limited Wagon "Trailer Queen"
« Reply #152 on: May 22, 2012, 11:51:31 PM »
what a tease!
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Re: My First Eagle: 1983 Limited Wagon "Trailer Queen"
« Reply #153 on: May 23, 2012, 12:29:56 AM »
I know right? And I've been really lazy lately and haven't done a darn thing with the car or my vinyl project.
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Re: My First Eagle: 1983 Limited Wagon "Trailer Queen"
« Reply #154 on: May 24, 2012, 09:29:22 AM »
Well I didn't get to the wood grain stuff yet, but I did do this!







Had a heck of a time trying to get the springs pushed down to the farthest hole on the shackle plates. After trying several different things I finally came up with this brilliant idea! :)



Sorry, this one is blurry, but you get the idea.
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Re: My First Eagle: 1983 Limited Wagon "Trailer Queen"
« Reply #155 on: May 24, 2012, 11:09:25 PM »
That last picture... lol  :rotfl:
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Re: My First Eagle: 1983 Limited Wagon "Trailer Queen"
« Reply #156 on: May 24, 2012, 11:20:27 PM »
Yeah it was starting to get dark and apparently I didn't hold still enough for that last photo! :)
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Re: My First Eagle: 1983 Limited Wagon "Trailer Queen"
« Reply #157 on: May 28, 2012, 03:05:08 PM »
Ok, enough with the teasing...here is a HUGE hint as to what the woodgrain is for! :)



I'm currently striping all the crud and paint off of it. Do you think I should prime/paint before putting the vinyl on? My only worry is that I believe you are supposed to use water to help apply the vinyl and having water sitting on the bare metal just doesn't sound like a good idea.

Awhile back I was hoping to buy this set of turbine wheels for TQ and the guy ended up having a more local guy buy them prior to me making it to KC. They guy that bought them however did not want the spare or the center caps so Original seller sold me the spare with the 4 center caps for 20 bucks...a pretty good deal considering most sets of 4 that I've seen of these turbines are going from like 200-300 bucks even if the wheels aren't in great shape.

This wheel isn't in real good shape and while I had the wire wheel out I thought I'd see what it would do on the wheel. Looks like it would clean up real nicely if I went at it for a bit...still need 3 more wheels! :)

You can see along the outer edge and inner edge where I tried cleaning it up with the wire wheel. I also did the one spoke in the center of the pic. Should clean up pretty good. The hard part will be getting the spots between the spokes.
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Re: My First Eagle: 1983 Limited Wagon "Trailer Queen"
« Reply #158 on: May 28, 2012, 07:57:31 PM »
Quote from: Prafeston on May 28, 2012, 03:05:08 PM

This wheel isn't in real good shape and while I had the wire wheel out I thought I'd see what it would do on the wheel. Looks like it would clean up real nicely if I went at it for a bit...still need 3 more wheels! :)

You can see along the outer edge and inner edge where I tried cleaning it up with the wire wheel. I also did the one spoke in the center of the pic. Should clean up pretty good. The hard part will be getting the spots between the spokes.

How about wire wheeling the parts that you can get to, and then painting inside the spoke area the body color of your car?   Then you could clear the entire wheel.
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Re: My First Eagle: 1983 Limited Wagon "Trailer Queen"
« Reply #159 on: May 28, 2012, 10:04:24 PM »
Yeah, I don't own an air compressor...so it would be more than what I'd want to invest right now...would require the compressor and media blaster setup. I might see what I can do with dremel and a smaller wire wheel.
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Re: My First Eagle: 1983 Limited Wagon "Trailer Queen"
« Reply #160 on: June 04, 2012, 10:37:10 PM »
woodgrain skid plate?!
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Re: My First Eagle: 1983 Limited Wagon "Trailer Queen"
« Reply #161 on: June 04, 2012, 10:42:02 PM »
...yep! It's in the works!  ;D
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Re: My First Eagle: 1983 Limited Wagon "Trailer Queen"
« Reply #162 on: June 04, 2012, 11:53:33 PM »
Quote from: Prafeston on May 28, 2012, 10:04:24 PM
Yeah, I don't own an air compressor...so it would be more than what I'd want to invest right now...would require the compressor and media blaster setup. I might see what I can do with dremel and a smaller wire wheel.

You could maybe take the wheels to a shop that does media blasting.  Cost should be pretty reasonable.  Then get the wheels powder coated, although I'm not sure if they can do woodgrain powder coating  :rotfl:
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Re: My First Eagle: 1983 Limited Wagon "Trailer Queen"
« Reply #163 on: June 04, 2012, 11:58:41 PM »
I might have some left over from the skid plate and Thule windscreen project! :)
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Re: My First Eagle: 1983 Limited Wagon "Trailer Queen"
« Reply #164 on: June 05, 2012, 12:32:21 AM »
Quote from: vangremlin on June 04, 2012, 11:53:33 PM
Quote from: Prafeston on May 28, 2012, 10:04:24 PM
Yeah, I don't own an air compressor...so it would be more than what I'd want to invest right now...would require the compressor and media blaster setup. I might see what I can do with dremel and a smaller wire wheel.

You could maybe take the wheels to a shop that does media blasting.  Cost should be pretty reasonable.  Then get the wheels powder coated, although I'm not sure if they can do woodgrain powder coating  :rotfl:
No but you can have them dipped. It's called hydrographics or water transfer printing.

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