Stripping Paint

[r1_addict]

I am ready to strip the paint on the 73. Not sure if I should use chemical stripper, or plastic bead media in the sand blaster. Any advice?

Bill

 

[TWINRAY]

Looking in my Ecklers catalog, they have a stripper (paint stripper that is ) called "Spra-Strip Paint Remover." If using a stripper, I would use this rather than any generic paint stripper. As far as bead blasting, I don't know but Dream Car Garage on SpeedChannel just did a restoration of a '69 L88;worship
I think they may have blasted
They may have the details on their website.

 

[phrogs]

I have the spra strip.
once you use it you wash the area with water and all the striper is removed!

I have been hearing to many horror stories about media blasting not really the technology but shops are reusing the media to much not replacing and they are charging way to much now that people are coming to them!

I had a shop here in NC tell me 1500 to do my car then another 500 to do the inside and bottom, then another 500 to do my frame?

Ill suffer through chemical stripping do it my self and Ill save all that cash!

I bought mine here It was shipped in 2 days

http://www.halonmarketing.com/mall/Spra' Strip.htm


johnny

 

[born2saw]

I have a friend with a body shop who tells me horror stories about Vettes stripped with chemicals. He says a few years down the road, he has seen new paint start bubbling because you cannot get all the stripper off the fiberglass and neutralized. Then on a hot day, it boils to the surface and starts stripping your new paint.

He recommends heat gun and gentle scraping, then media blasting.

Around here, a really good paint job on a Vette is about $5000 total.

Good luck,

 

[paintdaddy]

Ive done both but Ive finally settled on staying with chemical strippers.The media blasting sounds nice but it will chew up the fiberglass leaving alot of pits to fix.I had four vettes done by the blaster and the price kept going up each time and the quality went down.The last price I paid was $1500 and the car looks like a tennis ball when it was done.:eek I can usually chemical strip a car for a third of the price and have a much better finished product.

 

[r1_addict]

Yea,

I am heraing the same thing from a lot of people. I just got a qute from a well known restoration shop up here and it was the magic $5,000.00 for complete chem strip and paint. But he plans on having it for like 3-4 months!!

 

[JBWeaver]

I used light Acetone to strip my 77. It took off two coats of paint and left the original primer in perfict condition. Took about ten gallons, about sixty bucks four years ago. The new paint still looks great. I'd soak a paper towel in the acetone then lay it flat on the paint, wait about five seconds and wipe the paint off. The paint job was $2600.

 

[cruisin-davey-g]

Stripping Off Old Paint

OK.............You might want to list this under "Ripley's Believe It Or Not". But, believe it or not, my son & a friend of his (who works for ASC in The Detroit area) stripped off the old paint on my '72 using razor blades. Yes, that's right, razor blades. They stripped about 90% of the body this way & it took 'em about 2 hours. My 'vette was painted with DuPont Imron (Airplane Paint). This paint job lasted over 20 years, before it started looking a little tired. They took all of the color off (sunflower yellow), and alot of the primer. Now, they did gouge the glass alittle in a couple of places, but they weren't deep & "blocking" the car took care of 'em. With most of the major "blocking" completed, I now have a pretty much bare fiberglass body ready to finish. And, it cost practically nothing, except for the time involved. I thought those two were crazy, until I saw 'em do it. I only had to use some stripper in the places where it wasn't able to "blade" off (the very rear & Front of the car). I had yellow crystilized paint particles all over my driveway & garage floor when they were done, but this process worked!

Just thought I'd share this bit of info with everybody. Dave

 

[crf311]

Stay away from the chemicals. I did mine with a razor blade. Worked great. Just take you r time . I did mine working a couple of hours a night for about a week. I canshow some the in process pictures.

 

[pizza3260]

razor blades

when you say you used razor blades to remove paint how did you do the pcocess,what type of blades & how many did you use.

tom b.

 

[cruisin-davey-g]

Re: razor blades

when you say you used razor blades to remove paint how did you do the pcocess,what type of blades & how many did you use.

tom b.

Tom: OK......You need a razor scraper that will hold single edge blades. You'll use quite a few blades ( I bought a 1000 pack. They're not that expensive) I believe you can pick this up a local hardware store, or your local paint shop supplier may have razor scrapers. Then you just take your time & shave (scrape) off the the paint in strips at about a fourty-five degree angle. To get started, just push the scraper slowly & add pressure until you break the paint surface, then set the scraper on a slight angle (approx. 30-45%) & push, or scrape in a single stroke, using even pressure. It may take some practice at first, but you should catch on to a pattern quickly. It's not that diffucult. My son, who was 16 at the time & his buddy, 17, did this process in about two hours. His buddy has been doing body work since he was 12 (his dad's a car builder) & a major custom shop started working him at the age of 16. So, he's pretty hip when it comes to car building & I wouldn't hesitate in a "New-York-Minute" to have him do body & paint on a car. He's really talented. When he told me & my son that we can razor scrape the old paint off of my vette, I thought he was crazy. But. it worked! Good luck with your project & have fun!

Dave