I decided to spruce up the AC vent box this afternoon. Got it disassembled and the exterior cleaned and painted flat black.
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Some of the insulation inside was not in good shape
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So I scraped it out as best as possible and used some self adhesive foil backed insulation.
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The vents and two pieces separating the middle vent from the outers had a great deal of pitting. Steel wool didn’t even make a dent in them. So i dug out some 320 and went to town on the vents and other 2 pieces. Finally Had to go with 80 on the 2 connecting pieces. The vents didn’t turn out too bad after sanding and finishing up with steel wool. There was no way I was going to be able to do anything with the actual louvers
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The pieces separating the outer vents are supposed to be chrome plated - not gonna happen - maybe later. so I elected to paint them flat black to match the housing.
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After assembling everything I decided those black pieces looked out of place
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So I pulled them off and shot them with some “chrome” paint
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After reinstalling them they look much better in silver than in black. Shiny chrome plating would have been ideal, but one has to do what one has to do!
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Not a bad afternoon’s work!