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Old 05-21-2011, 08:08 PM   #61
Dan in Pasadena
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Re: Danny Boy is BAACK! w/ '55 Big Window

Another small job I did was start repairing my cracked original steering wheel.

Fairly bad cracks, hope it works! Here's how it looked to start:


A lot of advice online says to widen out the cracks with a file. I did that before on my '46 and made them too wide. I used my Dremel this time to minimally "clean" the crack inside, blew it out and used JB Quik Weld (I may regret not using regular JB but its what I had without going out!)



Gotta leave a heavy "scab" of JB on the surface so you don't have to fill a second time-though you frequently do anyway. Tomorrow, I will thoroughyl sand and feather it all out, prime and paint later in the week.

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