[whatsnewell]

Finally got to this project this weekend. Took the old batteries to Interstate and bought two new ones. Scraped a bunch then used the Ace Hardware version of OSPHO. Painted everything up and then put the new batteries in. Looks great. 30 years of grime in there.

Speaking of that last summer I had a bay door the hinge was shot on and it would not close all of the way. The hinge just grinded on 30 years of dirt in it. Clarke and Tom spent a day and swapped it out. Today I was about to order another hinge for a bay door that also crunched and hit on the bottom and would not close. The I started to think maybe I should try and blast the crud out of the hinge and get it to work and see if that somehow fix things. So I drilled the rivets out to take the door off and then blasted the hinge from every angle until it ran smooth and had the full range of motion. WD40'd it and then rehung it and tada! Works like a champ. No new hinge. I have a couple more I will try this on. There is so much dirt in the hinges it actually displaces the hinges and then the doors don't close well. Easy fix. What's that you always say Tom think simple first?

Todd, would love to see some pix of the result!