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Very nice job

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Fantastic Restoration!

Getting excited!

Did u sell all the pumps at the swap meet or still have some left for sell

Sign is fake, sold by a known pos seller.

Always look at sellers others items.

Picked up a couple Texaco cans.

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New information I was sent by a fellow collector, shows that Bennett may have used a BUCKEYE nozzle.

Hopefully, you'll set a price for your sign, and then offer it for sale here on Old Gas. No eBay selling commissions if you do that. John

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Hi everyone! Wondering if anyone has the light frame that goes on the back on this American sign or if anyone has a photo of what it looks like.
Thanks

Disassemble everything, down to the bare panels. If you want the frame and base blasted, remove the computer and any pumps . All parts should be stripped including any bright metal, chrome and stainless. There appears to be at least one shop in your town who offers sandblasting? AC Welding seems to offer that service. There are probably more? Google to find more options. That's how I found AC Welding. Take all the parts that you want stripped to them. Tell them to blast all over. That's inside and out. They will put them into a rotation and get them done in a week or two? Depending on workload? In my experience, you're looking at $200-300. to blast everything? They do the work, you get the panels back clean and ready to do body work. I restored pumps for over 30 years and this was the best and most functional way that I found. Regards, Paul

Yeah, that's what I was hoping to find, but it doesn't seem to exist. I can kind of imagine what it looked like based on what I have and the color palette, but I'd love to see it complete.

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Snagged this beauty today. Sign is a keeper

I'm currently doing a wayne visible and these are on the cylinder base. I have not noticed them on other pumps. The one I have is a 515 but the cylinder in 10x36 or a " tall ten"? Anyone familiar with these tags?

Jim645, This post is 14 years old and the person who made the post also hasn't logged on in years.

Good news is I finally get to see what the doors look like assembled. I know others have had to do much more work than I to see that, but it still feels like it took forever.
Bad news is I need to order a few more parts. When I took it apart I noticed only two of the glass bezels had bad pitting in the chrome. So I only ordered two. Those pitted ones were built very thick and tough, I believe those might’ve been original or made a very long time ago. The other bezels that aren’t pitted are flimsy and I found are broken. I’m sure they are repros made sometime in the last 40 years. I noticed the two repro bezels I already ordered are even more flimsy than those. Oh well. I always try to use as much of the original parts as possible. I’m even bead blasting and coating the nuts and bolts I took off. I’ll hang onto the original pitted bezels incase rechroming prices ever come down.