28 Rouge

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Interesting. I wonder what they used for polishing compounds?

You would think that they would do the compounding after the fenders were installed.
 
old31 said:
Interesting. I wonder what they used for polishing compounds?

You would think that they would do the compounding after the fenders were installed.
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The fenders were dipped enamel and would not be polished. Truck bodies were not polished either.
 
Lacquer paint has a tendency to orange peel a bit so polishing was necessary. Parts that were enamel didn't orange peel like lacquer. They could work on the body pretty easy if on an assembly line like that. Wet sanding with fine abrasive paper followed by a good buffing would make the finish look pretty good.
 
The only thing on that side is the speedometer cable. It may have been stowed there to keep it from hanging down under the body. The terminal box wiring and the electro-lock cable are both just loose there. The battery connect wire may be supporting the wire conduit tube in an upward position at the hood rear hinge point but I can't tell for certain. The fuel system components were likely installed after the body was on the frame.
 
A fellow who was hired as a Ford assembly line worker said he was handling bodies. He didn’t know he needed work gloves, no one had told him, and they were not supplied by Ford. At the end of that first day his hands were cut and bleeding.
If I remember correctly this was recounted in the book “Working” by Studs Terkel. Based on the age of the book and the possible age of the worker, it might have been during the Harry Bennet era.
 
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