Re: Repairing Datsun SSS's

[Jimmy]

you sand blast hard areas like door frams, engine bay etc. You bead blast panels like door skins and bonnet. Seriously it is not as easy as pointing a gun and pressing. The guy i am going to use in canberra has been doing it for decades and knows how to do it. I am going to pay him even though it costs something like $700 or more for a whole car.

 

cheers

rclough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

If he's seriously going to take all the paint off the insides, door frames
etc, give him the money. Its a dirty, time consuming job and I will pay for
a professional sand blast next time, now I am confident I know what panels
can be safely blasted!

----- Original Message -----
From: Joshua Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 8:01 PM
Subject: RE: Repairing Datsun SSS's


> Hey Rick I was going 2 pay a bloke 2 sandblast my eng bay 4 $100+.
> You were saying the setup u got was $22 + pressor da ya think i would be
better off doing it myself?
> Tks Josh
>
> --- "Jeff Oldham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Rick,
>
> Sounds great !, I wish i had your motivation, patience & skill.
> keep us up to date with your progress.
>> Cheers Jeff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of rclough
> Sent: Sunday, 4 July 2004 10:22 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Repairing Datsun SSS's
>
>
> Some of you may be interested in my preparation for repainting of my
> 1600SSS. I've wanted to repaint it since I bought it six years ago. The
> original alkyd enamel is in excellent condition, but its that baby's poo
> brown colour, not attractive, although very distinctive of its "era".
> I have stripped everything off the car, except the front and rear
> suspension. Stripped out all the interior trim, trim glue off the interior
> panelling, and removed sound deadening from the floor areas. I dug out all
> the seam sealant around the floor, including the boot. I sand blasted all
> the heavy guage sheet metal ar! eas inside the cabin, boot and engine bay.
> Sand balasting is a good way to ensure all the old colour is removed from
> all the crevices, the welded on brackets and tabs, and to ensure the new
> paint sticks in those hard to sandpaper places.
> By hanging plastic drop sheets around the car and standing it on black
> plastic, I have been able to recover and reuse most of the blasting medium
> (garnet), using my trusty garage vacuum cleaner. My sand blaster is a
> "Supercheap" $22 model and its going fine in these cold, dry conditions
> using a water trap and 90PSI pressure . It was not good in humid summer
> climate, as I found out when I tried to start the job earlier in the year.
> The expanding air caused water to form in the gun, blocking the sand
suction
> tube regularly.
> I have found with practice I can blast off the top coat and leave the
> undercoat in most flatter areas. I use a breathing ! mask to ensure I dont
> suck in too much of the dust and garnet.
> I have sprayed a first coat of etch primer and a second coat of
> primer/filler. If you sandblast, make sure you suck all the sand out of
> every body crevice before painting, otherwise it will blow out when you
> spray on the paint, leaving a gritty finish. I will use the sand blasting
> method on the door jambs and the door frames, but not the door skins.
> I wont sand blast the outer panels as they are thinner and sandblasting
> could distort them. The exterior paint consition is very good and the
panels
> are perfect, so there is no need to rub back to bare metal outside.
> I am procrastinating about the new colour, it has to be one of the
> original factory colours, to keep the originality of the car. I dont have
> to decide the colour yet as its too cold to paint a top coat in my shed
> during winter.
> In between sand blastin! g and painting, I have been cutting out the rust
in
> panels on my other project, a 180BSSS. I am chopping out replacement body
> sections to weld back into the rust removed areas.
> The 180BSSS doesn't have a great body like my 1600SSS, but it was free
and
> I like the challenge of rebuilding it to give me a Datto that I dont mind
> flogging in a bit of motor sport! I have just found a good Datrally
engine
> to add to my collection, so I'm feeling motivated to get them both going
> (and get rid off a heap of parts and panels stored in my shed).
>
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