No-Chip Trim Screws
Mark SimpsonDescription
Nothing is more frustrating than chipping fresh paint while attaching trim screws. Mark Simpson demonstrates a quick and easy way to use dielectric grease to avoid chipped paint mishaps and finish your classic car off right.
We're ready to finish up the trim installation on the inside of our '57 DeSoto. And there's one thing that, you know, that kind of caught our attention was is if we just crank down on the screws on these painted surfaces, the screws themself will actually bind against the surface of the paint and cause a chip. So in order to get around that, we took some dielectric grease. Dielectric grease is basically a silicone-based grease. It's not petroleum-based. And why dielectric grease? Because we know a silicone grease won't stain, it's easy to clean up and what we're gonna do is we're gonna rub that around the base, the painted surface of our trim and around the base of the screw. Now, as that screw, as our trim screws tighten up, they actually won't bind against the paint surface and we're able to torque them without chipping the paint. Then to clean that up, we can just use some glass cleaner and a good rag. We've installed our trim screws without chipping the paint.
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If you look real close when he installed this screw the paint is already chipped at the 2 o'clock position.
you mentioned a grease, can you tell me the brand name of it, you could have showed that product in your video, as I'm not familiar with that type of grease. thanks.