Anodized parts/bezel repairs for 66 Dart

Wow, very nice work. I have a shop only 2 miles form me that does anodizing so thats no problem. The hard work will be shaping and removing dents as my bezels look very similar or maybe even a little worse than yours did. How many hours do you think you have invested into yours? Thanks for the reply, anyone else go thru this work to restore yours? Any other pics of completed work vs where you started?
Thanks
Rod


most of the time was "wait " time to remove the anodizing. I spent about 2 hours total removing the anodizing, but waited 3 to 4 hours between coatings to make sure it really soaked the part.

both bezels had tears in the holes from the wrong screws (3" deck screws for craps sakes) in them to hold them on. I spent a couple of hours using the aluminum rods fixing the holes and about 3 hours apiece removing dents and "operator errors" since I had to learn NOT to push hard on any of the dents. gently was the work for the aluminum. you can use a lot more force on stainless steel trim. once I go it close to shape by test fitting it to the car I worked it down using finer and finer grits of sand paper, the coarsest I used was 220 and the finest was 2000 (1500 would have worked but I was chicken) after that a bout 1/2 hours each on buffing using different compounds, I only used 2 different compound sticks from Lowes made for aluminum, the coarse heavy cutting and the fine polishing one. there are 3 different ones I found out later coarse,medium and final polish. that is the way I'll go on the next set by using 3 compounds.
sooooo all in all I have about 6-8 hours per bezel and I still could probably do a bunch more to make them really look crisp and shiny. the grill took forever (20+ hours and still not done perfectly)due to the slots that had to be done by a tiny dremel polishing pad one at a time and I still have not painted the ring in the bezels