Got a price to have the wood trim redone on my 90 country squire. The guy wants $800, I have to ship the trim to him and it has to be clean, all the old film off. Anyway, his site is woodgrain4wagons.com and it looks like he does good work. Anyone have this done and what have you paid.
I did it myself. It's a lot of work and some pricey materials. With shop rates and everything, that sounds like a decent price. Getting the old film off was where the dirty work was on my 1979. I don't know if the 1990 system was the same. Here's my thread on what I did - 4 days to do it.: http://www.stationwagonforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=708
Yup, big gamble shipping those. To me any way, it seems for his price YOU have to get all the hard work done, clean, strip, etc. Hey Norm, after you stripped/cleaned how long did it take you to recover the trim? Do you have a by hours answer?
About 4 hours, maybe 5 with drying time. The Metal Ready was the most expensive. Maybe $100 in materials. It is work intensive and he's got more trim than my short wagon.
A few years back,my wife asked around, about new woodie for our 86 Colony Park.Most estimates were $3,000+---and only one place said they'd be able replace the metal trim pieces,after the new woodie had been put on.:confused:
At $800, its a fair price. Shipping tubes like those concrete sona tubes are pretty indestructible, each peice wrapped in tissue paper and those shipping worms (foam) to fill it up. He'd be ok. If you do it yourself, there's a tendency to either scrape too much or not enough. If you had access to an aircraft repair shop. All the old stuff would be 'tanked' off in chemical baths in about 2 hours. They dip ailerons and tail wings in them when they resell them to get the old numbers and logos off without scraping.
Thanks for the input, I never realy thought about how to ship them there. It's funny, some of you guys might remember, I only paid 700 for the wagon LOL, it will cost more just to do the trim
I basically followed this guy's instructions. His molding is a foam based plastic. metal trim needs a different cleanup/prep. http://www.rickwrench.com/index79master.htm?http://www.rickwrench.com/wood.html
Lots of dough left over for the resto. I'm not cheap. I'm frugal. But whatever you do yourself and improve on others' techniques is another PLUS for us all. That's the hobby of it. Now you just have to get the wife to go along with the time on it.
