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Title: Standard cooler done & others. Post by: Funtronics on January 17, 2012, 07:47:21 am Eric here is the Standard cooler I got from you a while back. Finally got it finished, and a few other things. The Grapette cooler turned out really nice.
Enjoy the pictures.... Title: Re: Standard cooler done & others. Post by: mllaugh3 on January 17, 2012, 08:08:18 am Rod,
They all look awesome. What shape was the Grapette cooler in before you restored? I have a couple coke coolers I want to restore but not sure how to get the dents out of the body and lid. Any helpful hints? Title: Re: Standard cooler done & others. Post by: Funtronics on January 17, 2012, 08:15:04 am The main part of my cooler had a few small dents in it that they pulled out. The lid was pushed in pretty bad, so they had to take it apart by cutting out the welds, and taking the underside liner out. This way they could get to the inside of the lid and hammer it out to put the cross lines back in it. I traced the embossing and had my graphic guy make a blocker decal for me. So the painter painted the lettering area the color of the embossing and then let it dry and put the decal on over the embossing and then painted the cooler white, and then peeled of the decals that was on the embossing, and theres your embossing painted on.
Title: Re: Standard cooler done & others. Post by: Eric on January 17, 2012, 08:25:37 am Thanks Rod for posting this... Glad to see it restored properly.... Awesome as always.
Title: Re: Standard cooler done & others. Post by: bcharlton on January 17, 2012, 01:45:36 pm Thanks Rod,
They look great. BC Title: Re: Standard cooler done & others. Post by: Wojcik on January 17, 2012, 06:32:18 pm Great job! :smile:
Title: Re: Standard cooler done & others. Post by: 90grad on January 18, 2012, 06:50:56 am WOW!!!
Title: Re: Standard cooler done & others. Post by: SSmoothie on January 18, 2012, 07:01:37 pm The main part of my cooler had a few small dents in it that they pulled out. The lid was pushed in pretty bad, so they had to take it apart by cutting out the welds, and taking the underside liner out. This way they could get to the inside of the lid and hammer it out to put the cross lines back in it. I traced the embossing and had my graphic guy make a blocker decal for me. So the painter painted the lettering area the color of the embossing and then let it dry and put the decal on over the embossing and then painted the cooler white, and then peeled of the decals that was on the embossing, and theres your embossing painted on. Very nice, does Funtronics sell the blocker decal, I getting ready to have my Westy Jr. painted and may try this instead of paying for the hand painting lettering. Thanks, Clay Title: Re: Standard cooler done & others. Post by: Seven181 on January 18, 2012, 07:37:56 pm Great job Rod! Looks awesome.
Title: Re: Standard cooler done & others. Post by: cohammer on January 18, 2012, 09:23:31 pm Did you replace the tub or is it original?
Title: Re: Standard cooler done & others. Post by: Funtronics on January 18, 2012, 10:00:31 pm :darn:
Did you replace the tub or is it original? It has the original tub in it.Title: Re: Standard cooler done & others. Post by: Funtronics on January 18, 2012, 10:04:04 pm Very nice, does Funtronics sell the blocker decal, I getting ready to have my Westy Jr. painted and may try this instead of paying for the hand painting lettering. Yes we have the decals to use for blockers.Thanks, Clay Title: Re: Standard cooler done & others. Post by: Pat Pixley on January 18, 2012, 11:23:19 pm Hey Rod nice work, aways love to see photos of a finished machine or item :smile:
Title: Re: Standard cooler done & others. Post by: David D on January 19, 2012, 12:12:05 am very nice it looks great, thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: Standard cooler done & others. Post by: RC kid on February 01, 2012, 09:28:59 pm Very nice work.
Title: Re: Standard cooler done & others. Post by: TomFromJersey on February 01, 2012, 10:25:31 pm Looks Great Rod!!
Tom Title: Re: Standard cooler done & others. Post by: bcharlton on February 02, 2012, 04:22:19 pm Nice job Rod.
Title: Re: Standard cooler done & others. Post by: Larry on February 03, 2012, 10:40:56 am Looks great as usual.
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