Todays subject ties into yesterdays you tube video. Earlier in the week
I received a 76 Mustang that had been modified with the ×Eleanor
kit. Unfortunately, circumstances had led the owner to let several
shops work on the car and in the process it was painted numerous times.
I have operated ×Strip Technologies
for 20 years and have never striped a car with as much paint thickness
on it as this one. I counted no less that 6 total paint jobs and there
could have been moore. I roughly guess the total paint material, not
counting body work, to have bee almost 1/4 " thick. It was soft and
gummy, which did not allow my plastic to effectively remove the paint.
This project too 4 days to strip, but as it turned out the car is solid
and now has a great foundation for the new paint.
Starting the ×Media Blast process on the fiberglass hood.
Note the paint thickness and poor adhesion. As we begin to remove
the layers of paint you could smell the solvent gasses and see the wet
material.
We also uncovered prior damage that had not been properly repaired.
Once the paint was finally off, we mover the car into the ×Abrasive Media booth.
The brown stain is surface rust that was painted over.
From this picture you can see how we slowly remove the surface rust.
Using our method minimizes the chance of warpage and leaves a great
anchor profile for the primer.
Note how clean the metal looks after we abrasive media blast the metal.
I have included the last two photos to reinforce my dissatisfaction with the ×Eleanor body panel kits.
