Making Stainless Steel Automotive Trim: The details in making the FINISHED part.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Before you go and tell me I'm crazy, I already said the last part was to learn. This is the part that is for real. All the stuff I left out of the previous video is in this video. Do you want to know how to planish and polish your stainless trim? It's in this video. How about stainless steel passivation - you bet. Getting tiny trim tabs mounted turn your crank...click on the video and enjoy the ride.
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"That sounds like a lot of work to me so I'm not doing it..." Said the man who just invested crazy time and effort to create a trim piece from scratch :D
Keep up the good work!
Ouch - completely true.
Lol
The level of perfection that you go for is black belt!
LOL - I'm using that one later.
Not the algorithm! Great production and great craftsmanship!
Thanks - viewers are great motivation for these projects.
Really enjoying watching these episodes from down here in Aistralia. I suppose I could step away from TH-cam for a bit, go the garage and work on my neglected project. Thanks for sharing what you're doing and look forward to whatever's next.
Cool - I've never been to Australia, but it's on my list. More little projects that take time is what's next!
Great video and great patience! You re-energized me to try to make a stainless part that has been giving me grief for months. Thanks again and keep posting mirrored stainless work👍
That's awesome. I hope you get that part made. A few more pieces to go and this job will be done!
Lots of good info, very interesting.
Glad it was helpful!
Absolutely stunning
Thank you! Cheers!
VERY impressive work!! Thanks for the inspiration!!
Thanks
So glad you took the time to show us the final version....Well worth the effort...sharper more aquiline perfect. You can take the rest of the week off with full pay. Cheers
Hopping into the new project right away. Garage is cleaned up and I'm ready to start.
Beautiful - and don’t lose it. 😜 Absolutely inspiring results. Thanks for the ride along. My suggestion is that you document on your next YT video where you store it, so when you can’t remember you can ask us and we’ll tell you 👍👍😎👍👍.
I really should do that.
Oh my goodness! Great work!!!
Thank you so much!
RE: that final sanding phase to fit to the hood - in guitar building we do a similar process to fit a saddle onto an arch top guitar. Sandpaper is affixed to the arch top and the saddle is carefully worked back and forth to take the shape of the arch. Not saying it would be better, but something to consider.
Great tip - wish I knew that before I fit the part!
awesome work as always, your attention to detail is commendable. maybe tattoo the location of this one on your forehead, ha ha.
LOL - I posted the detailed location in response to a viewer. So if I forget, it's backed up by YT.
Awesome craftsmanship and dedication to a standard. I’d would have given up after the first part calling it good enough.
Thanks 👍. I'm really happy that I stuck it out.
I'm an electronics man and do not have the tooling, but I've been fantasizing and daydreaming about building a few bits for my (and others?) Volvo 140's missing trim bits.
Cool - you can make the tooling if you need to. I'm using Sendcutsend.com for most of these things and we have a maker page (you get a discount if you go visit it).
So much nicer than original!
Thanks
Awesome work!
Thank you! Cheers!
Beautiful ! And a Big thumbs up!
Thank you! Cheers!
I really look forward to your videos! Keep it up
Sorry these are taking a little longer than normal. I try to keep to a two week schedule. Hoping to get on top of the next project and make sure I can keep the progress coming.
Learning...thanks
You're welcome
That took a lot of patience.👍
Yup - it was a long haul to get that surface to where I was happy. The tab welding was tricky!
I just put in a stock aluminum part on my hood. Pales in comparison to your part, which is a thing of beauty! What's gonna happen to the test part? Auction? Raffle? Outright sale? I probably can't afford to buy it outright but I'd place an auction bid. And spend money on a raffle in a heartbeat!
It's packed away right now with the real part so I can lose both at the same time. It will probably become garage art. Given I have the hammer forms, I can make more when I have time. I haven't tried the fit on a steel hood - don't know if it fits.
I use a citric acid solution for removing rust from components like calipers, engine blocks etc, some preparation is needed to protect machined surfaces, (vaseline) if the liquid is kept warm it's much more efficient, don't jump in and try it without research though!
I hope it does the trick. I usually use phosphoric acid for rust removal.
It works really well, I use food grade stuff, it's a lot less hassle than electrolysis! Obviously not toxic being food grade so easily disposed of! I'm in the UK so rust is a real problem! A small lump of land surrounded by sea, and just for good measure....the roads are salted in the extra cold ( for us ) season!
Sitting here wondering if when you bagged it and put it away, you found the original. 😁
Super work.
I did not find the original. But this one is in the "trim box" in the shelving unit at the back of the garage. There...now I've even recorded where I put it away. Doomed for sure.
Great video 👍 Stainless is anything but stainless😂 when finishing try a Scotch Brite polishing wheel and garyflex blocks rogue grey and brown.
Thanks for the tip! I'll look for those. I've got some more to do here in a bit.
@@ThrottleStopGarage I appreciate you sharing tips on fabrication and making videos
I might miss something, but what is the difference with this and an originally installed trim?
The original is a bright anodized aluminium part that is not really all that nice.
Another way to go about this... TOTALLY different...(just a creative thought exercise here) would be to have made molds for CF version of the trim, sliver-surface them (mirror-chrome), and follow up with at 2K clear coat or tinted coat. Not as durable - but maybe fitting...
Forged carbon fibre would work for sure.
Brasil
Thanks for tuning in.
18:40 Soup Classic Motoring cup 👍
I was wondering if anyone caught that!
I'll have to go with elegant, who would have thought.
Yes, elegant is a great descriptor of the finished part.
Wow, just wow! You do realize that once the car is done, anyone with any Volvo knowledge will instantly know that trim never came from Volvo! Blasphemous!
I like it when people have to take time to figure out why it's wrong...but right if you know what I mean.
Assuming they didn’t see all the videos about carbon fiber replacement panels, custom suspension, etc. 😁
Now that you have the replacement part and you bag it and all its accessories is the time where you hold it and say I will put it "here" so its safe and I will know where to find it... and if your like me when you set it next to the "lost" original you will wonder why that never works until you have the replacement in hand.
It's in a box that holds trim parts...kiss of death.
what's next on your list?
Great question. So I've just finished a project where I could have bought the part. I'm now going to make grilles for the car that I can't buy. Similar techniques - just started to clean up the metal today.
@@ThrottleStopGarage I wonder if one could 3D print a grill, then flame-spray the plastic (supposedly the metal will stick to paper).... polish and plate it! (gotta keep thinking of wild and crazy ways to do things right?)
A little too large for my printer. I'll try it using a metal hammer form first. As with all these projects, it may or may not work. We'll find out.
@@ThrottleStopGarage I'm inspired by a chrome shop video that uses a flame sprayer to rescue and fix pot metal parts with silicon bronze (wire or powder?). The parts seem to cool to the touch nearly immediately. Not a cheap tool though.
Looking forward to seeing how you figure out the grill!
OCD strikes again!
And again. LOL.
Bag it and then duct tape it to the underside of the hood.
I've got a garage database now. Labeled rafter storage and numbered boxes. We're sorted. The original has never shown up.