{"id":1075,"date":"2012-09-05T05:27:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T13:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2012-09-05T05:28:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T13:28:52","slug":"bumper-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2012\/09\/05\/bumper-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumper Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Finn went to bed, I used the evening to wire wheel the rest of the bumper. This section went a little faster because I wasn&#8217;t dealing with as many compound curves, but there were still a few areas I couldn&#8217;t reach with the angle grinder. After taking off the rest of the high spots, cleaning it all up with the flap sander and wire wheeling flat areas, I covered all of the welds, angles, and unsanded sections with a liberal coat of POR-15 and let it sit overnight.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Untitled by idiot king, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/7934799138\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8041\/7934799138_b6f5d9a5fb.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tonight it&#8217;ll get a rubdown with some acetone and then a coat of etching primer; while that&#8217;s drying I&#8217;m going to mix some Bondo together to fill in pinholes and other imperfections.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"POR-15 by idiot king, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/7936790314\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8176\/7936790314_9cd6939111.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"POR-15\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I had the POR-15 open I put a coat on worn sections of the soft top bows and hardware. Tonight I&#8217;ll scuff it with some sandpaper and get it ready for a coat of paint as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Finn went to bed, I used the evening to wire wheel the rest of the bumper. This section went a little faster because I wasn&#8217;t dealing with as many compound curves, but there were still a few areas I couldn&#8217;t reach with the angle grinder. After taking off the rest of the high spots, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bumper"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-hl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}