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Pete in Kansas:  Beautiful restoration / customizing job.  Did you have any rust?  If so what did you do to remove it and did you then have to prepare the surface for new paint.  I have several Lionel cars that could use a restoration but they have various amounts of rust and I am not sure of a good mechanism to remove it.  Thanks

Don

Yes it had a lot of rust on the roof which was cleaned with a brass wheel on my bench grinder and then the pitting was filled with red lead. I bought a tube of red lead at walmart a few years ago and at the rate I'm using it this will probably last me for the next 10 years! After these areas are sanded and primed you'd never know the pitting was there.

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