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So when we were doing the ice challenge over clocking beef, blah, blah, blah last year earlier this year, whatever year it was, we used this particular 480 millimeter read from Ikea to submerge in our ice bucket or are cooler or whatever he is.

But the problem with this is the fact that since we left it submerged, we've got all kinds of rust has formed on here as you can see on this side.

But some of the screw holes screws, air completely rusted.

This was straps I used to attach two of them together.

We're gonna do here is normally this would look like a throwaway.

I mean, look at all the discoloration right here.

The chips, The fens aren't so bad on this side.

But if we look at the other side, you can see a lot of the fins or smash.

And that's just because we pour in the ice.

These fins are very fragile.

And so the ice would hit it and kind of smash it down.

You can see is a lot of oxidation discoloration happening here.

This is just Gaff tape there.

So this is typically the kind of radiator someone would probably look at.

Just go and then just throw it away.

But today I'm gonna show you kind of the methods.

I used to take these radiators and make them like new again because the red like this is a about $100.

So just tossing this and buying another one isn't very necessary.

But also to this one thing you should know there are different types of rads out there.

There are aluminum radiators.

There's copper radiators.

There's copper and aluminum mixed.

Like these air aluminum fins was a lot of different ways that radiators were made.

So in this particular instance, this is going to apply to the red that I have.

But you just need to know that your mileage may vary and the tools are gonna be using here.

My trusty I fixit kit that my wife got me, um, linked to this down description below every time I show it, I want people to use kids like this not just because, you know Amazon affiliates, but because this has every bit you could possibly need.

And then this is kind of the, um the more advanced kit, which also has Theoden inal tools that you would use to replace the screen on a phone.

But they come very handy when it comes to computers and stuff.

So I'm gonna be using these angled very fine tweezers.

I'm also gonna be using this kind of a staid just to help make the Finns nice and straight.

We're gonna be using some again our engine enamel, because we're gonna be we will be painting the fins as well.

But because all the paint room be doing is cosmetic on the outside, this won't have any effect on temperatures.

You guys gonna argue in the comments if you want?

If it matters, if you paint the fins, I have painted plenty of radiator fins, different colors, or even back to black and never seen any sort of a heat issue where it's insulating and having less transfer of heat.

It's always worked perfectly fine.

And then we've got sandpaper because we do need the sand off like the buildup of oxidation and just make the smooth and ready to accept Can't.

All right, so now we're adding another tool to the mix.

This is just a deal, Walt drill, which is?

It just has leverage.

That's a live here.

Even though they were submerged, they still got wet.

So all right, so to take this off, you just have to kind of wiggle it out.

You could just slide the core out.

I looked like something I just pulled out of a junk yard.

So now we're gonna go ahead and straighten out the Finns.

So because when the fence take impact, this sort of smashed flat you want to be impatient with this, you're just gonna take the tweezers and you just gonna kind of squeeze them back to straight again.

This is the part that's gonna take the longest and be the most tedious Teest.

It's also gonna be the most trying on your patients.

Your rad's gonna be visible like it's hanging in your case with the fans above it, and this is gonna be visible.

Then you obviously want to take your time to do this right.

You can also get creative with your own method.

If you guys have a way of doing this that you think is better and faster than please, by all means sound off.

I'm sure there's someone watching this video who works in a radiator repair shop might even have a proper tool for this role.

I know Phil actually just had a really good question.

You said, Are you pinching and pulling up?

I said, No, I'm not pulling it all because these air just these air so fine and the way that they're attached in Stoddard to the Rose, you could easily just pull the thin right out.

And so you don't want to pull up it all.

I'm just pinching and then twisting to kind of make it straight.

And as you're doing this, you might notice some might break free from the row.

That's perfectly fine.

Some of these probably never even adhered to the road.

The right way to begin with, which you have to understand, is that these air never going to look perfect.

In fact, they don't even come out of the box.

Perfect.

In between each one leaves fins is a long, thin piece of metal that all the things attached to a cz Well, not just the road, but right here got smashed down just a little bit.

So we're always gonna have a little bit of a dent right here.

But I think overall, given what we started with the way it looks now, this is obviously way better than it was before.

And then in terms of airflow, though, you can see right through it.

Yeah, you could see right through you like you can see through the entire radio.

That better?

Hey, look, um, Georgie, also to his wanna mention point of painting this part right here.

These tanks you also don't want to grab it like that.

He'll smash all the ends.

These tanks don't show.

So I'm not gonna worry about pretty ing up these tanks because member, they have these pieces that cover it.

I'm gonna spray paint this off, not put together.

Because obviously, if we don't, if we want this be a different color or something, Then when it's not all assembled, we can make it a nice, uh, nice clean peace rather than having like, masking lines and stuff.

But you don't want it s o to get paint on the edge right here.

If you do get paid on the edge on this particular radiator, these have rings down at the bottom of those threads right there that will be sealing against the the copper or the brass.

Whichever material, this is a fairly certain a copper, the advertisers full copper.

So you don't want to mess up that surface with pain.

If you do get paint on it, you're definitely gonna want to sand it after the fact.

So we're gonna do right now is we're gonna go ahead and give this thing.

It's first coat.

I'm just gonna leave these rubber bits on and paint over them.

These air, not for anything other than filling the gap between the surface is here.

And then we'll talk about cleaning up these the side pieces in that much pain.

It might look like it.

It's really not that much pain.

So now this leaves us with the end tanks while that paint is drying.

So in this particular instance, this is, ah, fairly certain a powder coat.

This is an aluminum piece which we've already talked about.

There's a lot of different options to do here.

You could sand it down, and in this particular instance, we might lose our letters because it seems like these letters feels like these were massed off and then painted and the letters were peeled up.

So that's the actual bare aluminum.

So we gotta sand all this down, get it all ready for paint.

And the nice thing is, because this is aluminum, I could even go the route of polishing this and making they polished case.

So here's all the end tank pieces nice and sanded.

I didn't worry about doing the inside it all.

A little bit of that surface rust could stay there.

This is just from what leapt off the screws, which you can see right there.

We'll talk about those in a sec.

But, Phil, once you get that a touch, tell me, is that smooth?

But any way you could say I sanded around the edges of where the fittings go anywhere there were some deep gouges.

I went ahead and you can see I kind of sanded that down real deep.

There was a big gouge, their know where that came from.

They're still gonna be a little of the gadget shows through the paint, but it's gonna be better than it was because this is still damaged.

But obviously we have those screws because they screw their steel and the screws or what?

Rusted.

And so we start to clean those ups.

What I'm doing here is I've got just a wire wheel that comes with the Dremel kits and I've got my dribble.

Definitely.

What I protection for this because little bits of these wire can pop off we're gonna do is we're just going to take a piece of sandpaper like this, and what I'm gonna do this is gonna look kind of nice to, I think, because this is steel just put it flat.

It's a flathead, at least in this particular radiator.

You probably don't even have to do this unless you're running an e k red and just pull it across and you get that nice kind of a brush to look which I think will look good against the black when it's all put together.

But the threads we've got to deal with the threads and we've got rust on there, so obviously we don't want rest.

Once it's there, it will continue to eat and continue to feed.

And so I'm just gonna put it in the end of my pliers like this.

No need to hold it very tight just like that.

So you could see the threads are sticking up and I'm taking my wire wheel on low speed.

So there's a before and an after I mean, most of the screws gonna be hitting your legacy the head.

But obviously you don't want the rust on their So this is what the main core and you're looking like now that it's all dry and stuff.

This is the side that was all smashed that we, as you can see fixed.

In fact, you have to really look to find where that really bad smashed area Waas.

Yeah, this turned out so good.

And then if you look at this side, the side that has hardly any damage so we're gonna do now is we're gonna spray these pieces separately.

It makes you clean them off for a good two.

Is we got the table even turned black.

I gotta clean the table cause so much paint dust came off as you're sitting there standing it.

You don't want dust on this.

Obviously, you could use alcohol and other low tech cloths and stuff to get off all the debris and dust and dirt that could still be left on here because obviously you wanna clean surface to it.

Here, too.

I'm not gonna bother primary it, though, because this it's not like something is going to be getting used a bunch of abuse and handled so the paint will stick.

I've used this method before, so we're gonna do a final painting on that order.

My screws go.

Okay.

There.

I want to show you guys how the screws turned out after doing the wire brushing.

So they're the screws, right?

There is you can see they're all nice and rust free.

If I flip this one over and will be, the light can catch it.

You can see I sort of sand it.

Yeah, my fingernails.

That nasty too, with all that black dust under there.

So it's gonna have kind of like a shiny look against the rat.

Just a little bit of, ah, fine detail.

So it's Go ahead and paint these pieces.

Put a couple coats on here.

They were gonna reassemble it because during the reassembly, some scratching might happen.

Will probably do another dust it layer once it's awfully assembled.