Saturday, October 17, 2020

Old & Rough Tool Case - part 10 - Front Lid -- gluing down loose pieces of the leatherette, cleaning the leatherette & cleaning the felt center section on the inner side

Outer side of the lid.  There's a section near the top left where the leatherette is worn and loose (it's on the joint where the wood had separated and was glued back together).
In this picture, I pushed the loose piece up so that the wood below is exposed...


Applied glue...


After waiting a few seconds, pushed the loose leatherette back down and pressed to make it adhere.


Continued more cleaning of the leatherette.  The blue shop paper towel became pretty black all over...


Another area where the leatherette is loose.  Applied glued and stuck it back down again...


The outer surface of the lid.  All the loose edges have now been glued down and the remaining leatherette has been cleaned.


On the inner side of the lid, there's a center panel where it's recessed and covered with green felt.  Using a relatively gentle plastic bristle brush, the felt was cleaned.
In this picture, the small pile of dirt in the center and bottom half show how dirty the felt is...


After the brushing and cleaning.  It could probably use some more cleaning but too much cleaning will further damage the old felt.
Decided to stop here.  It's reasonably clean and all the loose dirt has been removed.
May try gently vacuuming it in the future (have to be careful to not suck off chunks of the very old felt!).




 

Two 1997 Porsche 911 Brochures





 

Phil & Enzo - part 18







Friday, October 16, 2020

Friday, October 9, 2020 -- Manhattan Beach Pier - Havaianas


All the benches were in use so I had to stand while taking a break at the pier.



In the parking lot just on the south side of the pier, they were selling Havaianas sandals out of an old split window VW van.
Havaianas are made in Brasil & have the Brasilian flag on the toe strap.  I've has several pairs over the years...


$28/pair ?!


In one of the large parking lots at Dockweiler beach, there was a gathering starting to build of very loud Harley baggers...

 

Old & Rough Tool Case - part 9 - Lid's outer side -- gluing down loose pieces of the leatherette & cleaning the leatherette

the leatherette near the lock key hole is loose...


 There's several loose areas at the LH side corner.

Applied some glue...

After a few seconds, press the loose leatherette down...

Cleaned the LH side of the outer surface of the lid.  Need to finish cleaning the RH side...



1997 Nissan Model Lines Brochure





 

Phil & Enzo - part 17





Thursday, October 15, 2020

Thursday, October 8, 2020 -- Continuing construction and a movie/TV/commercial shoot?


Looks like they're setting up to do a "shoot" at the beach.


 

Old & Rough Tool Case - part 8 - cleaning the lock with steel wool, gluing down loose pieces of the leatherette & cleaning the leatherette

Elbow grease with steel wool...

Makes a mess...

The lock has a number on it...

B72-H-1 (Wonder what the code means.)

LH side has been cleaned...

Glued down a piece that fell off in the triangular area...

This area is worn & needs cleaning...

A little loose piece...


Glued down the loose piece...

The leatherette on the inner side of the lid has been cleaned and glued down.

The edge of the lock needs cleaning still...

Pretty rusty...