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Originally Posted by theastronaut
With that finished I had functioning hinges with no play and no binding. I hadn't done anything cosmetically yet so I disassembled them and used the 2" grinder to even out and smooth all of the stamping marks, then ran over all of the surfaces with a 3" DA and 60 grit to remove the grinding marks. After that I thoroughly scrubbed each part with Dawn, then Ospho to remove the fingerprint rust from handling bare steel parts. I lightly oiled them to prevent excessive rust during mock up until final disassembly and pain.
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Great work on the hinges!
Dumb question here as I've never dealt with bare metal parts before. What do you use to scrub with Dawn? Grey Scotchbrite? Also, approximately how long do you have to paint without oiling the parts? I'm in Socal and it's usually pretty dry here (60%-ish humidity). Thanks!