Paint Stripping Whats your method?

[beater68427]

I'm always curious as to methods or likes and dislikes of others for doing certain processes on a restoration, this got my mind in grinding on the process of stripping paint. My preference has been to chemical strip my bodies and just use media where rust only is a issue. My reasoning is that the bodies went through a hot iron phosphate process before paint, and I have noted a blasted body will rust quite fast here versus a chemical strip body. I just use a steam cleaner and Aircraft stripper, this is the bottom result on a "A" body.

The red is some primer left over.

[firstgenaddict]

Nice Job...

I use chemical stripper as long as there aren't corrosion issues... Then a light D/A to remove the residual paint left behind.

A buddy just had his car soda blasted... it leaves an excellent surface which looks like fresh steel. I think I may do that next time.

[Bill Rose]

When I get to the point where the paint has to be removed, I have all the "hard to strip" areas, like interior, bottom of the car, trunk, the bed of the El Camino, fire wall, etc media blasted. I do the flat panels like the doors, hood, deck lid quarters, etc with a spray on paint remover (Captain Lees). I've never had any problems with flash rust after the blasting. I did all the body work on my Chevelle and the El Camino, before any primer was sprayed, and the body work took a couple months. They were both in a dry environment of course. Here's a shot of the Chevelle bottom, and the Elky bed after blasting.

[RamAirDave]

There's a new "green" dip now. Biodegradable, water soluble (I think), non-toxic, removes rust but doesnt damage/remove any metal including aluminum (good for trim tags).

Will be local here in LR in a few weeks, have seen some of their tests. What I've seen looks pretty good, but still not sure if we'll go that route or not in the future.

Likely I'll just blast (NOT soda) everything myself once set up.

[72-SS-L48]

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There's a new "green" dip now. Biodegradable, water soluble (I think), non-toxic, removes rust but doesnt damage/remove any metal including aluminum (good for trim tags).

Will be local here in LR in a few weeks, have seen some of their tests. What I've seen looks pretty good, but still not sure if we'll go that route or not in the future.

Likely I'll just blast (NOT soda) everything myself once set up.

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Is its Safest Rust Remover? Its a product by Ultra One, based out of NJ.

-Dave

[RamAirDave]

It's not SRR exactly (I don't think), but maybe a similar product.

This place down in TX has been doing it: http://www.metalrehab.com/

What is supposedly coming here is similar, but they had a different chemical formula made that removes rust as well as not damaging any other metal.

Still researching it, and I'm still not completely sold on having a body dipped.

[Kurt S]

Ask to see the MSDS for the chemical. That will tell you a lot....