Then I used a course wheel and grey compound to cut out fine scratches followed by the calico buff wheel and green compound to polish the steel.
I didn't have time to spend ages cutting and polishing the stainless and in reality it could have used a light sand with some very fine wet and dry sand paper before using the buffing wheels but you can see in the photo below the top frame has been polished and the bottom one hasn't.
After that I also gave the steel another going over with some autosol steel polish and the end result was pretty good.
Next step was to remove all the tape and clean the glass with metho. Then I set up to work with the strip seal I purchased from glass4classics.
I found it easiest to sit the glass up on its edge as depicted.
Then I just worked along pressing and folding the seal over the glass. I also used pieces of tape along the length just to help hold it in place.
Once it is sitting taped if you give it a really good squeeze and warm it a bit with your hands it stays stuck to the glass and you can remove the tape.
Next I wet the rubber strip down with Kerosene. You must wear cloves from this point on or you will be covered in black shit for days.
Then I used a wooden block and hammer but a rubber mallet would work to hit the channel onto the glass. You just go slow doing this as you also need to hit the channel back so it lines up with the screw holes in the stainless trim and if you hit the channel on too far before getting it all lined up you will never move it, or so i have been told..........
Then just put the screws back in the end (I only had one that was salvageable) and trim the excess seal back with a sharp blade.
Another quick wipe with metho and all done.
