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Old Sep 7, 2005 | 09:53 PM
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Check out these pics, my sons helped me strip 2 vettes today, using putty knives and a heat gun...Look at the 74 hood, all came off in 1 piece!









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So, using a heat gun,(if your careful) is not a bad way to go about stripping the paint?
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Old Sep 7, 2005 | 10:02 PM
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The heat gun thing didn't work out so well for me, I had better luck with the razor blade method. What is your technique for stripping the paint with a heat gun? How hot, how close, and long do you heat the area that your stripping?
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If your careful...try not to get the paint much over 200 degrees...just watch yopur progress. This won't work for all cars, we got lucky....
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Old Sep 7, 2005 | 10:08 PM
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I have "orange peal" all over the car. Some comes of very easy with the r. blade. But in other areas it seems to need a little more "umph" to get. I was wondering if the heat would help.
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I had the same problem, I wound up sanding the stubborn areas with 80 grit by hand to knock it down. This method takes a little it longer and requires more elbow grease, but I found it to work better for me than the heat gun did. Like Big G said, it may not work on every paint job, you'll just have to try it and see. Maybe you'l get lucky like he did, I wasn't that lucky.
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i know its not the best thing, but when my dad painted the vette 20 years ago he just sand blasted the entire thing. said the paint come off in no time.
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I think your supposed to unbolt the hood to take it off.
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either the heat gun works really good. or those vettes had horrible paint jobs.
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either the heat gun works really good. or those vettes had horrible paint jobs.

I was thinking the same thing. Mine came off in little bitty pieces. I was afraid to cook the vette using the heat gun. Does look funny with the whole hood paint coming off in one sheet. Makes me wish mine would have came off like that, it would have made my job a whole lot easier. Good work guys.
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either the heat gun works really good. or those vettes had horrible paint jobs.
I've been doing this for 19 years now, and that 74 was the easiest car to strip. Yes, it was a crappy job.
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