Yes, I may be publishing things somewhat out of order, but hopefully posting things based on Topic, and not by Date, will make sense. (Since my photos are sorted based on Topic, it makes perfectly good sense to me!)
Moving on....
Door disassembly:
Well, here's what I have to work with:
The chrome is pitted, the paint is peeling, and the metal underneath is starting to rust. Looks like crap, right? Yeah, but....as they say in the sporting world, "Just wait 'til next year!"
Anywhoooo, I removed all the "V's", carefully making note of the P/N's, and bagging & tagging everything:
After taking a lot of pictures of all of the screws and miscellaneous brackets ("bracki"?) that hold the door chrome assembly together, I removed both door side castings (w/the requisite bagging & tagging):
Along with the door front casting:
And the key plate:
Apparently I didn't take pictures of these last two items at the time of disassembly, as these pictures were taken solely as "inventory" purposes for re-chroming.
Regardless, that only left the metal frame (make that "rusty" metal frame), and the perforated grille assembly, shown here from the rear:
I separated these into their component parts and set them aside.
While I was at it, I also took apart what I refer to as the "roller guards". Here is one of them fully assembled:
If you look closely you can see they were a riveted assembly, but I didn't take pictures of the drilling-out process. Too boring (no pun intended)! As I mentioned previously, the front and rear pieces are cast, and will go out for re-chroming, and the joining center piece I will have re-plated.
So at this point I'm still (only!) down to this:
Need to keep moving!
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