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Old Joe,
I am glad to hear your success. Keep us post on your progress.
Jeff
'67 326HO
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From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 3:59 PM
Subject: [FGF] RESULTS OH BOY!!! Best paint removal method?
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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:
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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.
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