Removing paint
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Racer
Joined: Sep 2000
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From: Dallas Texas
Removing paint
I am sick of it! I am beginning to look like popeye. After scraping the first of three layers of paint off with a razor blade and using stripper (did not work well) and elbow grease I have half of it off to bare fiberglass. I know it's a bit late, but I need to find an easier or I guess more expedient way to get the rest of it off. Would there be any problems using a pnuematic file board? Would it be possible to damage the fiberglass using one? I know I have to be careful of the curves and edges but anything has got to be better than back and forth and back and forth and ....... :banghead:
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From: Westminster ma
Re: Removing paint (DVG73)
Try this trick, get yourself a roll of Suran Rap (Plastic rap) , the wife always has some right above the stove. Put down the stripper and place the plastic rap over the stripper, wait a few minutes, pull the rap and scrape only with a plastic scraper like the ones used for Bondo. This should get you through the paint and primer. After all the color and primer is removed, I used only 1.5 gallons to this point, the next thing to get off is the gelcoat..This will take the longest, use the same stripper, get yourself SCOTCH BRITE, work the stripper with the scotch brite, it will take it off. When you get done you won't need power steering.
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Racer
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From: Dallas Texas
Re: Removing paint (DVG73)
Thanks for the comments. I have read Lars paper till I just about have it memorized. I am shying away from the stripper, I have done the saran wrap thing and it works OK but I just don't like using stripper. I am going to continue to sand but does anyone have any comments on using a pnuematic file board instead of a manual one?
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Joined: Aug 2001
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From: College Station TX
Re: Removing paint (DVG73)
I went your route ... triied the pneumatic file board. Do NOT go there. I had three VERY thick layers to get through, and stripper just didn't cut through the clearnot did the file board ... so ...
I used a Dual Action sander on all but the edges. 80 grit PSA discs to get throught the clear and through the top 2 layers. Once I got down to the original lacquer, I used stripper for the lacquer and red primer coat, and am now hand sanding through the gray primer and all the edges. For me, the DA was THE way to break through to a layer that the stripper would work on ...
[Modified by sray454, 4:10 PM 8/21/2003]
I used a Dual Action sander on all but the edges. 80 grit PSA discs to get throught the clear and through the top 2 layers. Once I got down to the original lacquer, I used stripper for the lacquer and red primer coat, and am now hand sanding through the gray primer and all the edges. For me, the DA was THE way to break through to a layer that the stripper would work on ...
[Modified by sray454, 4:10 PM 8/21/2003]
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Re: Removing paint (sray454)
why are you guys removing the paiunt down to the bare glass? I jsut removed the paint, the primer under there was in excellent shape and the few spots that aren't can either be redone or sanded out (there's 2 layers of primer and what appears to be gelcoat on mine so I can sand down the 1st layer w/o a problem)
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Racer
Joined: Sep 2000
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From: Dallas Texas
Re: Removing paint (Twin_Turbo)
A couple reasons I decided to go bare. There was a least three coats of paint and I think the newest was IMRON which for some reason seems to be resistant to stripping. The second and biggest reason was this car was beat to hell. When I bought it, it looked great but as time went by the paint faded and stress cracks started showing up and now that I have gotten one side down to glass there are numerous areas that need to be repaired correctly. Most of the repairs are bondo and in some locations it is 3/4" thick. I had to take the right rear quarter panel off due to the bondo artist that supposedly did it "right". If I knew then what I know now about this car I would have run away and found another car but hindsight is 20/20, live an learn a lot. :smash: