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I too agree, thanks Adlers. It's like when I was in school, go to do some research, see some people you know, talk a little, get some info, give out some info, get some ideas, maybe laugh at something once in a while, maybe tell a true story so others laugh.

I was polishing my ZF for $30. Saw this sandblasting gun and fine grit on sale at Harbor Freight Tools, so cool, I could just polish that baby up right in the engine bay. So I hung blankets and towels around everything that wasn't ZF and put my breathing aparatus on and got the compressor fully pressurized. The first grit was just dust from a sandstorm and it took a week to settle in my garage. The neighbors would be quite upset if I did this job in tha driveway because their cars would get dusted for a week. So the next step was these tiny glass beads. They're like ball bearings on the floor. The really cool thing about these glass beads is they don't leave dust anywhere. So, after a lot of vacuming, I got out the sandblasting residue from everywhere Pantera and garage. S..., still not so highly polished and I don't want to vacuum again, so it's Mother's aluminum polish, buffing, etc. Still not so highly polished is my ZF. Man, I'm truly curious of this polishing witchcraft now. I've seen it in other Panteras, so what's the secret? I would disbelieve any one after my experience, that a ZF could look soooo nice. It's now really clean and pretty nicely polished, but not like that. I also learned, and want to share, that you need eye protection, even if you wear glasses or safety glasses, like for three month's I'd wake up with those tiny glass beads all in the corners of my eyeballs. I took those eye boogers and I could feel those glass beads between my fingers for months. They don't lubricate your eyeball, but they make the floor slippery as snot. Black magic this stuff, and I think it's funny....

Not everyone always gets along, but things get back to normal. They always have. I guess this is the right place to tell a story, in Alejandro's Bar, right? See ya, gotta go. Gotta go stay out of trouble with my Pantera! It could get me in trouble in a lot of ways, if I don't watch it. Cash, crash, jail, smashed fingers, broken bones, and a lot more categories of trouble too. It's just nice not to have industrial grade sandblasting glass beads in one's eye sockets once in a while, or all the other problems which could occur, if one is not doing things carefully.... It's a whole lot of fun! Somebody whisper in my ear about this polishing witchcraft!