SWMBO says

[JPSmit]

Saturday I'm working stripping paint on the front fender with paint stripper - really smelly paint stripper. My beloved comes home and says, "why don't you just get it stripped." OK - I do what I'm told /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/banana.gif cause I was hating stripping paint.

Anyway, now I need opinions. I can have it dipped and stripped or soda blasted for about the same dollars. I know dipping will do a more complete job, but my concern is that it will strip paint that I can't repaint - i.e. the inside of panels. Soda Blasting won't be as complete but if you can see it to strip it, you can see it to repaint it.

Any thoughts?

Thanks again so very much

JP /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thankyousign.gif

 

[Trevor Jessie]

I do not like acid dipping. It removes too much good metal along with the bad. I'd go for the blasting. Just my opinion.

 

[bugimike]

I don't understand, if you are going to paint the outside, why can't you paint the inside too? If you were to have it dipped, you would be removing it, right? If you are just doing the one fender, I would remove it anyway, which ever way you decide to do it. Then, after eliminating whatever flaws (rust, chips etc.) give the whole thing a good primer and finish coat and you have a new fender!!!

 

[Trevor Jessie]

Paint will not go where the acid flows unless you dip the car in some sort of paint.

 

[tosoutherncars]

Are we talking about the fender here, or the whole shell?

If the fender: dip it! It's easily painted, back & front.

If the shell... well, depends how rusty it is! If it's minor / surface rust, I'd say you could get away with soda blasting... if it's pervasive tho, a strip followed by a anti-rust coating (which most of the dipping companies do). It's not like Spridget shells have that many box sections that aren't accessible.

My 2 cents,

Duncan

 

[JPSmit]

Duncan, it's the whole shell. There is remarkably little rust. On hole on one front fender, hole at the bottom driver's A post and probably one about to come through on the passengers.

I'm concerned though about places like the back of the metal on the inside of the doors. not sure how they can be recoated or painted.

On the bright side, what I have stripped is coming out like new metal

JP

PS - will phone tomorrow to see if they dip the shell in any kind of finish after it's stripped

 

[John Moore]

Just curious, how much is the going rate for a dip or to blast a shell?

 

[jlaird]

Blast shell all over, 4 to 6 hundred depending where you are.

 

[tosoutherncars]

(Or $2000 if you're in the Seattle area, apparently!!)

 

[tosoutherncars]

Is it already down to the bare shell? As in, not a single bolt left on it? That's the other benefit of blasting, it can be done in a more localized fashion, and/or with some parts left on!

I'd be interested in hearing more about the location you're (considering) using, either here or offline - I'll be doing my VW soon, and haven't been able to find anyone local (Ottawa).

-D

 

[JPSmit]

Yes, the car is already a bare shell (see pic) I kind of lucked into the place, the people I am going through are near Guelph, but the dip company (who don't do retail) are I think in Mississauga.

Going rate in my area (Central Ontario)

Media (soda) blasting $185.00 an hour. (when I spoke to the guy he said it took 6 hours to do a early '70's Daytona - I figure 1/2 the time for Ms. Triss. And they come to you - even though I have no space to get it done here /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

Dipping 1.99 a pound. I figure 200-250 lbs

so either is $500-600 by my reckoning.