the 3m wheel attached to the drill has proven indispensible. here are two screws that were initally equally dirty, but with some cleaning with wd40 and the 3m wheel, the results are pretty dramatic:
finally found some time to put bondo on the side of the tank where the knee indents are. i have to admit that i actually mispoke when i wrote about creating indents. i mentioned that i used a deadblow hammer, when i actually used a rubber hammer.
in any case, since i will be mixing up bondo for the tank, there are two more pieces in the need of bondo. the seat had several small places that needed to be filled the headlight bucket needed some attention as well. the plastic was cracked in one place and when i was fabing the seat i took a piece of fiberglass cloth and reinforced the headlight bucket from the inside. now i only need to add some bondo on the top to completely smooth it out and remove any traces of the crack.
bondo victims:
me mixing up bondo:
i decided to use the professional gold bondo because i've read on one of the forums that it was a better one and since that one was only about $1 more expensive, i went with it. however, i have no reference point to compare it to the "other brand" typically found at walmart.
bondo smoothing out knee indents:
again, i first use 100 grit and then 200 grit sandpaper to smooth everything out. the remaining imperfections will be "smoothed" out with paint, so i don't really need to go any higher in terms of the sandpaper grit.