Stripping paint for restoration

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ir3333

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When stripping paint to bare metal for a restoration how do you guys treat door jams,hinges,trunk wheel wells and floor, and hood and trunk underside hinges and webs etc?
Will a total scuff with 400 grit scotchbrite and primer be sufficient for those intricate pieces?
 
Typically if your going to bare metal you can soda blast. I see your in Ontario and know there's a guy who around Chatham/London that comes to you...

If your doing it yourself, you can use aircraft paint stripper and then just scuff whats left.

Riddler
 
Riddler said:
Typically if your going to bare metal you can soda blast. I see your in Ontario and know there's a guy who around Chatham/London that comes to you...

If your doing it yourself, you can use aircraft paint stripper and then just scuff whats left.

Riddler
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do you have to treat the metal after soda blasting?
I know a lot of guys who sandblasted and still get sand years later.
..does that happen with soda blasting too?
 
You have to pick your poison, if I was going to do a rotisserie type of restore, I am pretty sure I would go with the media or soda blasting. And mentioned before, they will travel and set up and blast your car for you. Me, poor people have poor ways, op for the aircraft paint stripper, worked well very pleased. I did take the time to tape off the areas where I did not want the stripper to travel. Metal seams, corners, places where the stripper can get into and hide, and come back to haunt you. Lots of sanding no way out of it, under the hood and trunk lid were decent, did the scotchbrite pads, get the loose paint, feather the edges. Used epoxy primer for the bare metal, fill and sand primer for every thing else. I liked using the epoxy primer hard as nails, not as easy to sand down to bare metal, but costly. Hope this helps...
 
Dicer said:
You have to pick your poison, if I was going to do a rotisserie type of restore, I am pretty sure I would go with the media or soda blasting. And mentioned before, they will travel and set up and blast your car for you. Me, poor people have poor ways, op for the aircraft paint stripper, worked well very pleased. I did take the time to tape off the areas where I did not want the stripper to travel. Metal seams, corners, places where the stripper can get into and hide, and come back to haunt you. Lots of sanding no way out of it, under the hood and trunk lid were decent, did the scotchbrite pads, get the loose paint, feather the edges. Used epoxy primer for the bare metal, fill and sand primer for every thing else. I liked using the epoxy primer hard as nails, not as easy to sand down to bare metal, but costly. Hope this helps...
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Very helpful,thanks for your hands on info!
I thought hidden awkward areas could be sanded thoroughly,primed and painted.I also thought regular primer would be satisfactory?
 
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