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Originally Posted by 4 SPEED GOAT
EVERYTHING YOU HAVE DONE ON THE JUDGE SO FAR IS GREAT. I WAS CURIOUS ON HOW YOU RESTORED THE FAN. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AND GREAT PICTURES.
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Thanks!
In regards to the fan,
From the factory, the center hub was painted black, and the folded metal parts that hold the blades with rivets were bare metal. The flexible fan blades themselves are stainless steel.
After a thourough cleaning and polishing of the blades, we masked off the stainless flex blades with duct tape and then sandblasted the surface rust off the rest of the metal parts.
We then painted the "backbone" of each of the fan blades to look like bare metal. After that was dry, we then masked those areas off (including the back side of the rivets).........and then we painted the center hub black.
Each fan blade has a thicker piece of stainless steel wrapped with it that acts as a stiffener to help keep the blades' form and also to give the rivets something stronger to clamp down on. Those pieces of metal had a golden look to them. Since we couldn't remove them and have them plated without destroying the fan, we decided to paint them with a light mist of gold to freshen them up.