It depends on what you mean by chemical stripping. If you mean dipping the body, I would recommend against it. With dipping you need to have the shell absolutely bare. This will take all protective coating from areas you will never be able to coat w/o E-coating that will start to rust immediately. The worst thing about dipping is, if you have thin metal or much rust you will have nothing when they are finished. The only way I would recommend dipping is if you are going to have the body E-coated after. This will seal all there areas mentioned earlier. If your talking about manual chemical stripping, it is messy but you can do a great job on flat surfaces. It is difficult to get areas in the door jambs and under side of trunk and hood but can be done. Advantage is you can do it yourself. Bead blasting will do a great job removing old paint. If you have a lot of rust it will blow through these areas. You must paint immediately after blasting to prevent flash rust. Again blasting will remove paint in areas that can be difficult to cover w/ paint again but if you're very diligent about it you should be able to coat all the surfaces. Hard spots are under the hood and trunk. With blasting you will need to clean and clean and clean after blasting and then clean again or you will blow out dust when you paint and it will ruin your finish. If you leave the interior in, it will be a bear to clean In my opinion, of the three methods mentioned, bead blasting does the best job if: You have the time to prime immediately. You have a place that can do it for you. You clean, clean, clean after blasting and before painting. You strip everything on the exterior so they can do a good job.
Trooper ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Holtzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 7:02 PM Subject: [Chevelle-list] paint stripping > Anyone have an opinion of the relative merits/drawbacks of chemical > stripping vs plastic bead blasting. The time to have the paint and body > work done on mine draws near. > > Thanks > > -- > Bob Holtzman > "If you think you're getting free lunch, > ......check the price of the beer!" >
