{"id":22280,"date":"2011-05-01T16:49:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=12137"},"modified":"2016-09-17T13:40:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T10:40:24","slug":"destriping-preview-this-time-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/destriping-preview-this-time-for-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Destriping Preview, This Time For Real :-)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=12051\">my great joke<\/a> was thoroughly unappreciated. And I thought my readers had a sense of humour! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon, I made some real in roads in destriping Miranda. I&#8217;ve discovered that a hair dryer and a scraper are the only things I need to do an efficient job. The hair dryer softens the vinyl and adhesive and the scraper allows me to bring up an edge that gives me a good grip for removing large chunks. I just need to find the right scraper. Plastic isn&#8217;t sharp enough but metal is too damaging. The perfect thing is a finger nail, which is less than ideal!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now working at doing whole sections and not worrying about ghosting at this time. I&#8217;ll get all the striping off then see how uneven the finish is after doing a thorough buffing.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the passenger side before:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Miranda's striping before\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/CIMG0054.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today, I got rid of the writing at the back, the big burgundy swipe next to that, and the wide burgundy stripe under it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12138\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/destriping-preview-this-time-for-real\/imgp1899\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12138\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12138\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12138\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMGP1899-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"that white patch once held writing and a big burgundy swoosh; you can also compare the compartment door to the wall to see that I removed the wide burgundy stripe below the green and pink\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">that white patch once held writing and a big burgundy swoosh; you can also compare the compartment door to the wall to see that I removed the wide burgundy stripe below the green and pink<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_12139\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/destriping-preview-this-time-for-real\/imgp1900\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12139\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12139\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12139\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMGP1900-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"you can see the ghosting of 'Royal Classic'\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">you can see the ghosting of &#8216;Royal Classic&#8217;<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_12140\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/destriping-preview-this-time-for-real\/imgp1901\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12140\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12140\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12140\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMGP1901-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"You can see the ghost of the big burgundy stripe above the green\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You can see the ghost of the big burgundy stripe above the green<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like my great joke was thoroughly unappreciated. And I thought my readers had a sense of humour! \ud83d\ude00 This afternoon, I made some real in roads in destriping Miranda. I&#8217;ve discovered that a hair dryer and a scraper are the only things I need to do an efficient job. The hair dryer softens the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041,632,6,1226,635,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta","category-canada","category-homemaking","category-lethbridge","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}