Words to family

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Executive Suite at the Marriott.

After having several incidents due to poor quality service, the Glenpointe Marriott at Teaneck upgraded me to one of the Executive Suites on the 15th floor.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Radio Flyer 9A

This Radio Flyer steel wagon has been in my wife's family for 28 years. My wife's grand mother bought the radio flyer for her, since she was the first grand child on her mother's.They initially bought it for her when she was a 1 year old.
The wagon always sat in their backyard, garden, garage or wherever else the last kid, pet, or grown-up happened to abandon it. Yesterday, I decided to restore it so that our 9 months old baby can start using it on his 1 year old birthday.
My objective was simply to clear the rust, reinforce the wagon, which was weaken by years of abuse from children, weather and other living entities.

I started with a removing of most of the dust and a polish. I used a power drill with metallic brush to clean the wagon and its handle.
Then I fought the rust while trying to unscrew the wheels off to clean and paint them.

After taking off wheels, handle and wagon apart (the battery of the camera was down, so no pictures), I painted the every major component back to their original color, except for the radio flyer letterings on the sides of the wagon. I deliberately left that untouched in order to showcase the "age" factor of this collectible.

Final result. I added a little "touch" to the wheels. Always customized your ride!