So finally  I took upon the task of restoring the front hideaway headlight assembly for this car.  I have been avoiding this due to the fact that it involved more sandblasting in my useless sandblast cabinet.  I decided to do something about this failure.  I had planned to fix this problem for as long as I have owned this cabinet…..and I bought it used.  I didn’t understand at the time why a fellow car builder would allow his nearly new Snap On sandblast cabinet to go.  He told me that he was “Done with it”.  I bet.  Now I know.  I added a water /oil separator filter on the air line feeding my blaster with 125 lbs of air.  It seemed to help significantly although not perfect.  I even had a new glass installed so that I could actually see what I was doing when I was using this tool.  With a new glass I broke down and bought new gloves so that dust wouldn’t escape the holes in the rubber gloves that I had installed a few years back and cover me with a fine film of particles.   Off I went.  I chose to do one side completely at a time so that I would have a comparison to reassemble.  It would have helped me greatly if the last person who had taken this apart had put it back together properly.  The chrome rings that are placed on the headlights to keep them in place had their retainer springs put on backwards.  It is hard to tell that is the issue until you spend a couple of hours fighting to attach the two small screws and the spring per headlight.  Eventually you tell yourself that this job shouldn’t be this hard so now  find out why.   The trim rings I first cleaned with 0000 steel wool and then polished on my polishing machine with two different wheels and compounds.  There is at least on more level of shine I could have added to these stainless steel pieces but one must decide how far to go towards perfection.  Less is more!  These polishing wheels spin at a fast rpm and can occasionally grab whatever is being placed under its high spin and toss it at light speed across the room or worse yet, toss it at the user.  The sandblasted pieces were sprayed with primer and then the semi black paint was applied.  Although timely it is well worth it after seeing the end product.