There are twelve carriage bolts holding on the monitor enclosure and the cabinet body. I’ve been removing them three at a time, wire wheeling them rust free, and painting them flat black.

Doing them three at a time, I’ve gotten the ones on the bottom, closest to the body. I went to do the ones near the monitor, and I’m going to have to disassemble that part. As luck would have it, the bolts that hold in the monitor come right down to these bolts, and they’re in the way. Since I have to pull the monitor anyway I figure I’ll do everything at once, and give it a good cleaning.

The speaker grill is off. I’ve been wire wheeling the old coating away, and wherever I do there is rust underneath. Considering taking it to someone that can sandblast it (wire wheeling it takes forever) then powder coating it. Problem is…there isn’t anyone even remotely close by that does this. I dunno why. In a perfect world there would be someone withing 20 miles, or a few people. Closest is like 70 miles, so I think I’m stuck.