XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: am@yellowjersey.org   
      
   On 3/6/2022 9:58 PM, Michael Trew wrote:   
   > On 3/6/2022 0:51, The Real Bev wrote:   
   >> On 03/05/2022 02:20 PM, micky wrote:   
   >>> In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 04 Mar 2022 19:08:56 -0500,   
   >>> Michael Trew   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>> On 3/4/2022 1:57, The Real Bev wrote:   
   >>>>> On 03/03/2022 09:51 PM, Michael Trew wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 3/3/2022 17:38, The Real Bev wrote:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Only once -- the very first time I drove down a   
   >>>>>>> mountain road --   
   >>>>>>> did my   
   >>>>>>> brakes get too hot to stop as quickly as I wanted.   
   >>>>>>> Lesson learned.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> That's a pretty rare occurrence these days with disc   
   >>>>>> brakes; many cars   
   >>>>>> now have rear disc brakes also. When I first drove a   
   >>>>>> car (recently)   
   >>>>>> with 4 wheel manual drum brakes, I quickly learned why   
   >>>>>> people   
   >>>>>> (especially older drives) teach you to pulse the   
   >>>>>> brakes on steep   
   >>>>>> hills.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> 1950 Olds 88. Did they even have disks then? I really   
   >>>>> should have known   
   >>>>> better, but I'd never driven a mountain road before. I   
   >>>>> was lucky.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I don't think disc brakes were even an option until the   
   >>>> late 60's, but   
   >>>> perhaps someone else could be more certain.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Out of curiosity, did your Olds have power or manual   
   >>>> brakes? I owned a   
   >>>   
   >>> I had a '50 Olds also. I don't think they came with power   
   >>> brakes. But   
   >>> it did stop okay. They did have the possibility of   
   >>> Back-up lights. I   
   >>> found some at a junk yard and installed them. And they   
   >>> did have the   
   >>> possibility of an automatic headlight dimmer, based on   
   >>> the lights from   
   >>> the on-coming car. I only read about that.   
   >>   
   >> Mine certainly had no power brakes. Drums all the way   
   >> around. No power   
   >> steering either. 8-cylinder engine which I once got up to   
   >> 100 mph on the   
   >> long easy downhill pointing at Huntington (I think) Beach.   
   >> It felt   
   >> squirrelly, as I recall, and I backed off immediately.   
   >> (100 mph in a   
   >> Corolla is perfectly fine.) The car ultimately developed a   
   >> lot of   
   >> problems which I had workarounds for, but I ultimately   
   >> sold it to a   
   >> "fine Cherman VW mechanic" who was sure he could fix it. A   
   >> friend saw it   
   >> at the local wrecking yard a few weeks later.   
   >>   
   >> My grandma never learned to drive, but she scrubbed the   
   >> whitewalls until   
   >> they looked brand new. She also cleaned the chrome with   
   >> steel wool. You   
   >> guys remember chrome, right? Back when bumpers didn't need   
   >> to have their   
   >> broken plastic covers replaced at $hundreds/each.   
   >   
   > The vehicles that I have with chrome bumpers have rust   
   > scattered on parts of the chrome.  I'll have to see if steel   
   > wool cleans that up.   
      
   For surface discoloration use a chrome polish. Steel wool   
   will leave micro scratches and hence rust faster.   
      
   Where the chrome is broken or blistered, sand back to clean   
   metal, acid wash, primer and chrome spray paint (I assume   
   you don't want to have them stripped polished and re plated)   
      
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