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<font color="blue"><font face="Tahoma">I am thinking of removing all of the paint and grime of my spare door, bonnet and boot panels. I was looking into getting them dipped, but the cost is silly, so I have had a look at frost and they paint stripper for about a £10.
I was wondering if anyone has used this method to get these panels back to the metal ready for rust treating, priming and then painting and if so was it OK or a pain in the bottom?</font id="Tahoma"></font id="blue">

Paint strpper is VeRy messy, also (well, the stuff Ive used here in the states..) the fumes are very harmful to breathe &/or get on the skin of a person. You could also sand them, but thats very time consuming and almost as messy.

Soda Blast, removes paint but not rust, leaves smooth surface.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJguD-rbbIU

even a plastic media blast will clean it up a good bit, and shouldn't be too costly.

-Tim
http://www.morSpeedPerformance.com

If the paint is in good state, I mean not rust under it then I should not remove the old paint, only on the places were rust is under the paint.
The old paint sanding wet and then a layer primer before you finish it.

Henk

1980 TR7 US Convertible
1978 Mini Clubman Estate

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Paint strpper is VeRy messy, also (well, the stuff Ive used here in the states..) the fumes are very harmful to breathe &/or get on the skin of a person.
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<font size="2"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Hmmmm...... I can feel a story coming on......
Many years ago I used a chemical paint stripper during the restoration of an Alfa Romeo. This stuff was nasty! When you opened the can you could see the green chlorine fumes and when it got on your skin it would tingle for a minute or so but then it would burn like buggery!
Anyway whilst we were stripping the paint and bog of the car my dog kept hanging around and I had to keep chasing him away, now he was endowed with a rather large and prominent set of sporting equipment!
The silly bugger has returned and sat down in a puddle of this toxic stuff........he then gets a look on his face that says "Oh what's that? it's rather pleasant" [:p] as he looked down to see what's so enjoyable. Then the burn set in, he gave an almighty yelp! [:0] Then proceeded to run around in circles trying to get whatever it was that had hold of his family jewels! [}:)] I had to rugby tackle him and the wrestle him into a position where I could wash the paint stripper off his nether regions! While my mate could only roll around laughing at the spectacle! [:D]</font id="Comic Sans MS"></font id="size2">

80'Triumph TR7, 74'Jaguar XJ12 , 73'Land Rover (Ford 351. V8),
'89 Ford Fairlane
85'Alfa 90, 69'Ford F250.
76' Ford F100
I sold the '61 International AA120 to a mate.. he hasn't paid for it yet!
The Volvo 760 and one of the alfa 90's have passed on RIP! (Rust in Pieces!)

So after washing your dog's todger did you find you had a stronger bond with the pooch than before?

Right, quickly back to dip stripping. I had my GT6's bonnet dip stripped by a professional. Unfortunately is was either not thoroughly washed or it was not possible to thoroughly wash the chemicals from the abutted seems & a year after the repaint it started to react & rust. I'll never dip strip anything again.

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Where have I heard that before in the UK????

Soda-blast and plastic media!!! Two things i had forgotten about. Very good alternative. In my area there are a few places that specialize in these stripping procedures. Find businesses that can/will do that for you and you are set.

You can do it yourself if you want to spend the $$.



Johnny

<font color="blue"><font face="Tahoma">I am now thinking that it might be a good idea to keep the old paint on it and treat any areas that I need to, then just spray over it. I did want to POR15 the parts though to make sure.</font id="Tahoma"></font id="blue">

Are you repainting them the same color (or close) to what they already are? If so, you should be ok to repaint over. Just do a good cleaning, fix any trouble spots and let'em spray.

Johnny

Use a good orbital sander - and take away the paint and any rusty bits with that. You can of course buy a 'sand' blast unit - but it uses large amounts of compressed air - and it can distort thin metal panels very easily ! You are of course not allowed to use 'sand' - it's usually shattered glass beads. Quite expensive to buy - and difficulkt to recover for re-use unless you work with your hands (not your head!) inside a closed 'tent' like structure.