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What IS that stuff the Brits used for primer?

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The primer on my floorboards is the same as the rest of the car, the original (not the outside, that was redone). This stuff looks and acts like Red Lead. Could that be what it is. Stuff just don't come off, no rust underneath either. If it's really Red Lead, can you still get that stuff. Gonna go over the new, primed floors with Eastwood Chassis Black. I have used it elsewhere and IT DON'T COME OFF.

Also, any tricks for getting down to the metal in all these nooks and crannys?
 
Very likely IS red lead paint. Hope you're using more of a respiration protector than those "dainty" pince-nez cotton germ guards you use at the office, BTW. A two cannister MASK for vapor and particulates with some vaseline around the edges (due to any "facial hair") is best. 'specially if you're using anything but elbow grease as the "engine". And same goes for welding fumes if you burn it: Lead oxide.

Not bein' a smart-arse here... genuinely concerned for your wellbeing.
 
Kind've the Mad Hatter syndrome?

I'll be careful, taking most off by the ole razor blade technique.

Since I won't be doing this again. What a royal <s>PITA</s> BOTHER. The problem is I have to get all the metal surfaces so clean to be able to properly MIG the boards down.
 
*tic*
ummm... kinda...
...but it hasn't *tic* affected ME none!!!

"Manually" is best/worst... there's always the temptation to reach for the chemistry, but that fouls the surface too. then you're introducing the need for MORE labor.

This is why I opted to try the bonding materials.

...But a B may be less a "Flexible Flyer" than a TR6 chassis.

Now THERE'S where I miss that li'l :devil: icon!!! mehheh. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
In Bill's field a little lead is the least he needs to worry about
 
Well MY mouth is full of amalgam fillings, come to think of it.....
 
DrEntropy said:
Well MY mouth is full of amalgam fillings, come to think of it.....
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Mine too. Perhaps that is why we are fooling with LBCs. We are all MAD. It <u>was</u> the mercury that they used in processing fur-felt top hats that made them lose their minds, thus the MAD HATTER syndrome. Or POed dentist, not mad.
 
Yup. All th' same AFAIC... Plus, I got to play in mercury as a youth. Lead was just dessert... soldering was a 'mundane' activity with an electronics engineer as me Ol' Fella.

The REAL enemy is PLASTICS!!! Long-chain benzene polymers... givin' up them plasticizers... that 'new-car smell'... THAT's the carcinogen of the FUTURE babee. What we were exposed to in our youth is benign by comparison.

KEEP BUYIN' them SUV's kiddies.....


MAD ya say?!?! Who, Me?!?!? BWUHAAHAAAAAHAAAA.....
 
Yea Vinyl Chloride, Thats my fiellllsdddd
huh?
What were we talking about??
 
With all the great metal protection products available today that do not contain lead, I cannot understand why one would want to use lead paint. For removal by mechanical means, remember that the dust created lands on your clothes and eventually joins the resto of your household toxins. Were it mine, I would take to a professional sandblaster.
 
The Brits used that paint cuz it prevented the car from rusting.....in the showroom!
 
I don't know but every time you pop one of those TV dinners in the plasticy tray in the microwave give it a thought.----Keoke- /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
Keoke said:
I don't know but every time you pop one of those TV dinners in the plasticy tray in the microwave give it a thought.----Keoke- /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
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We Cajuns (well, Arabs) don't eat TV dinners. The last TV dinner I ate was in 1959 and it was in an aluminum tray. We cook in black iron pots. It does scare me to see a plastic container reaching 400* and not melting in the oven. That's why I want my floorboards <u>welded</u> in and not <u>glued</u> in and I want lead in my paint like it's supposed to.
 
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