What did you do to your truck today?

[Fordfanatic101]

you can kinda see the dent in the middle still but it looks about 98% better

 

[ScottyBoy]

not a damn thing since my back has been hurtin so bad all day today.
I done ate a fistful of pain pills by now

 

[JennaBear]

I was passenger all day today in the SSS.

 

[daddy]

Said hi to it in the garage.

 

[Fordfanatic101]

Said hi to it in the garage.

Lucky!!!

 

[nubuilder]

Drove to wal-mart to get some Nu Finish Polish and a microfibre towel for its bath tomorrow. Pics to follow . Also hoping the hail storm that is supposed to roll through takes a detour.

NuFinish is the bomb! I use an orbital buffer (takes way too much work and way to long by hand). Put it on lightly (you don't need much; the more you put on the harder it is to wipe off). Also, don't even come close to any black plastic. This stuff is a royal PITA to get off (I still haven't gotten it all off my handles). To get close to plastic, do it by hand when you wipe off the excess. Trust me, there is plenty to do the fine detail areas without adding more.


Drove it today.
It will finally be in a garage while I'm gone for 4 days. I'm riding my motorcycle (which I just got done putting in new fiber clutch discs (not the steels) and pressure springs) a little under 3 hours to Oshkosh, WI Thursday morning for the big airshow they have (AirVenture). If anyone is going (and I don't think anyone is), let me know and maybe we can meet up.

 

[Bernie]

Drove to wal-mart to get some Nu Finish Polish and a microfibre towel for its bath tomorrow. Pics to follow . Also hoping the hail storm that is supposed to roll through takes a detour.

NuFinish is the bomb! I use an orbital buffer (takes way too much work and way to long by hand). Put it on lightly (you don't need much; the more you put on the harder it is to wipe off). Also, don't even come close to any black plastic. This stuff is a royal PITA to get off (I still haven't gotten it all off my handles). To get close to plastic, do it by hand when you wipe off the excess. Trust me, there is plenty to do the fine detail areas without adding more.

I'll tell you a little story, about how NuFinish got me a dollar an hour raise back in the late 80's...

I was working as an EMT in NYC for a private ambulance company. The company took pretty good care of their people, once you proved yourself as being worth keeping. Generally, the new guys got assigned a "bus" every morning from a pool of about 30 ambulances, while the guys who had been there awhile, and had proved their "worth" were assigned a regular vehicle that only they used. We always worked in teams, with a driver/EMT and an attendant/EMT.

I'd been with the company for about 6 months, and done my time in the older pool buses, and when the next "new" bus came in (actually a reconditioned and repainted ambulance they'd bought at an auction) it was assigned to me and my partner as soon as it was painted and passed state certification. That was on a Friday, at the end of our shift, so we didn't expect to actually get to "move in" until Monday.

However, it turned out they were short one unit for the following Sunday, and my partner and I volunteered for it since we could both use the overtime pay.

Sunday morning, bright and early, we showed up at work, got into the new rig, checked out with the dispatcher on the radio and headed for our assigned PAR (Primary Area of Response) for the day... Coney Island.

It was a very nice, clear and sunny spring day, and we headed down to Coney Island, picked up some bagels and coffee, and the Sunday paper, and parked near the Boardwalk. After about an hour, during which we had gotten no calls at all, and we'd completely gotten settled in with our new rig, my partner climbed in the back to take a nap, while I read the paper and monitored the radio. After about 30 minutes he came back up front and complained that the sun coming in the back windows was so bright and hot he couldn't get comfortable.

We were sitting half a block from an auto supply that was open, so I got the bright idea of spending a few bucks and buying window tint for the back windows and installing it while we were idle. Twenty minutes later we parked the rig on the Boardwalk, my partner got out the stretcher, took off his shirt and laid back to soak up some sun while I tinted the windows in the back.

That took me about an hour, and it looked great when I was done. I'd gone with the darkest "limo" tint they had and it really cut down on the heat and glare in the back. While we were in the auto supply I'd also picked up a bottle of NuFinish for my own car, and since we still hadn't gotten a single call I said "what the hell" and started polishing up the nice new paint job. The rig looked fantastic when I was done! It was like glass, and showroom shiny.

Well, we never did get any calls at all that day, because the dispatcher kept forgetting we were out there since our unit number was a brand new number, and not one of his regulars, so we had a nice relaxing day on the Boardwalk, and my partner worked on his tan.

End of shift we called in and headed back to the garage, and the dispatcher accidentally said "on the air" that he'd forgotten all about us being out there (even though we'd checked in for our usually breaks and lunch) and the company owner heard him. (The owner had one of our radios in his personal car and monitored us all the time) That set off a bit of a shizstorm, with him getting really angry with the dispatcher, and I had a feeling there was going to be problems when we got back to base.

Sure enough, when we got there and started to pull in the garage here comes the owner, fire in his eyes, flagging us down. It had gotten a little chilly by then, and he had on one of those satin baseball jackets when he came up to the drivers side and started to lean against the rig to talk to me through the window... and promptly slid right down the side of the rig and wound up flat on his ass in the gutter. Man, I thought we were gonna be fired! Instead, he just looked up at me, looked at the rig, looked back at me and asked what the hell I'd done to the rig. I explained about the heat and glare, and the slow day because the dispatcher kept forgetting us (and showed our log which proved we'd actually called in regularly), and then explained about the NuFinish and waxing the bus. All he kept saying was, "And you did this with your own money?" (Honestly, it wasn't much, maybe $10 total for the tint and tools, and I barely used 1/8 of the bottle of NuFinish) When I confirmed, yes, I used my own money, because tinting the windows made our job easier, and because I liked the new rig, he turned around to his office manager and told her to give me and my partner each a $1.00 per hour raise, and to turn us loose with "The Book" and an unlimited budget.

We were stunned, and even the manager looked shocked, because "The Book" was the ambulance supply catalog binder kept in her office. That binder had anything and everything you could possibly install or carry on an ambulance. By the end of the week my rig had all new lights, new siren (dual 200w chromed speakers on the roof), new trauma kits for both me and my partner, new stretcher and stair chair, immobilization gear, extrication equipment, the works. We were like two kids in a candy store with a rich uncle. We probably ordered, and GOT, $25,000 worth of gear for that ambulance and ourselves.

And, to top it all off, we soon found ourselves as the #1 unit for the company, the one they'd send on all the high profile calls, like transporting celebrities, etc. We even transported the owner's elderly mother a few times, and each time we transported her the owner gave us each a $100 cash tip. And this was at a time when our weekly take home pay, even with the raise, was around $300.

And I credit it all to NuFinish... knocking my boss flat on his ass.

 

[drperry]

Got an email about my oil filter being on its way...

Going to book an appointment to get my transmission fixed next set of days off...

 

[700 sportsman]

Neat Story Bernie, nothing today or yesterday

 

[nubuilder]

Bernie, I think I've read that story some where else on the site, but I can't remember where.

WTF is up with the Admins' sigs?

Tobias

J-rod

Jim

Of them, Jim's is the best.
And what the hell Tobias, there's no Hondas on this site even!!!

EDIT:
For cryin' out loud Tobias, you actually bought one (thread)!

EDIT (again):
He didn't buy one (post #155).