Hey. Can anyone tell me a good site to learn about do-it-yourself chemical stripping? Or basically a good way to remove paint, rust, bondo, etc.

 

Here's a fun read on home stripping, body work and paint.....

http://www.mustangsteve.com/carascoupe.html

 

Do you specifically want to do it yourself and/or how much is your time worth? I had my whole car blasted for $550 and would've gladly paid twice that before stripping it myself. I'm sure I'll take some heat from others for not doing it myself, but there are only so many hours in the day.

 

Pay someone to do it. You dont want this to happen to your garage. How far are you wanting to go. Just the body or a complete strip.

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Hey Tony R,
How did you get that stuff out of your hair, your pockets, the carpets, off the dog, out of the clothes washer, out of the roses?
Jim

 

blaster came with a cheesy hood. Had to replace the plexiglass every couple hours so I could see. I pulled the car out in the pic and tried to sweep up as good as I could then I went to work with the air compressor blowing it out the garage all over my neibors beamer. no biggie to me. I am still getting sand out of my garage door opener. threw away my shoes and am still finding sand all over the house from tracking it trhrough the house. Wife isn't happy by the way. Oh well. I now have a clean canvas to start from. What do you do with 1500 lbs of sand you may ask. Well I spread it out over my back yard so now I have a mini desert back there. I should take up golf so I can practice getting out of sand traps. ha ha.

 

I use a glass bead blaster. My setup has a vacuum attachment that sucks out the bead dust. When I need to empty the vacuum dust tank, I use a couple of 96 oz Costco plastic orange juice jugs for the dust and then into the trash. Unfortunately, you can't get a whole car into the bead blasting cabinet. Maybe that's a good thing.
Jim

 

I have been pricing a blast cabinet now to start blasting all of my smaller parts. I am just going to need a bigger garage for all the tools I am acquiring.

 

Tony, Try Tp Tools www.tptools.com in Canfield, Ohio. I've used their cabinets, beads (Scat Magic), and accessoriesfor about 12 years now. The last time was today to clean up a coil bracket. I've used it to etch glass (need to practice more on that stuff), clean up rims, give redwood that 'antique' weatherbeatenlook, manifolds (requires a lot of blowing and cleaning out when your done), every bracket on a Mustang, hood hinges, etc. It's a good investment.
Jim

 

Thanks. I just ordered a catalog.