First Generation Firebird-L Mailing List ......................................................................... Guys, I have to tell you about the paint removal method that was truly impressive. Below you will see the method that was suggested by [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) (sorry, but no signature was given). Basically these are the woven nylon discs that you often see sold at the discount stores for removing rust and paint, but they are larger to fit your high rpm body grinder. They seem to be impregnated with some kind of abrasive cutting material. I tried it on a fender that had the original paint plus one repaint with another layer of primer in between the original paint and the 2nd topcoat. The paint looked like urethane on the refinish. This method stripped 1/2 the outside of a 68 GTO fender in roughly 15 minutes and the nylon disc showed little wear. The only thing that had me a wee bit concerned is about every 20 seconds, you will see a stragler spark coming off the fender. I was careful when doing this to keep the pad as flat against the surface as was reasonable and moved quickly so no edges would gouge the metal. I eyeballed the results afterwards and ran my hand over it and could not see or feel any wows, gouges or grind marks. I also tried using my braided wire wheel method to duplicate this and it took more than twice as long and a lot more pressure to remove the paint. I plan to shoot the bare 1/2 fender with a thin coat of spray bomb primer in gray and then a guide coat in another color. I'll sand it just to make sure there aren't any ill effects, but so far this looks like it is a winner. I'll report back my results this weekend. I really believe this might be the best paint removal method I have ever seen and it's cheap too!! Regards, Old Joe In a message dated 12/7/2009 9:25:03 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
First Generation Firebird-L Mailing List ......................................................................... I have had good luck with the nylon abrasive wheels (ITEM 94017-0VGA) from Harbor Freight. They attach to a 4 1/2" grinder. One wheel will do several body panels (depending on how much pressure is applied and the number of layers of paint.) They will also remove body filler. The wheels are $5.00 each, but if you catch a sale or coupon, I have seen them in the $3.00 range. They don't scratch the metal and don't generate much heat. They also work good for the final clean up after getting the big stuff off. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions to Firebird-L: <[email protected]> Unsubscribe from Firebird-L: <[email protected]> Help: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/firebird/Firebird-L.html> Classifieds: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/ubb/> Owner Pictures: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/show/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions to Firebird-L: <[email protected]> Unsubscribe from Firebird-L: <[email protected]> Help: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/firebird/Firebird-L.html> Classifieds: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/ubb/> Owner Pictures: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/show/>
