Pick up an issue of Chevy High Performance from the
newsstand and look at page 23 for the do's and don'ts
of paint stripping. Pretty good article. There are a
lot of good magazines and books in the book stores if
you take the time to find them and then read up on the
basics of what you want. I know that a lot can't be
done by some of you but this isn't a cheap hobby.
--- "Armijo, Manuel L" <manuel.l.armijo@intel.com>
wrote:
> muriatic acid gives off fumes when it bubbles on
> rust, and it'll etch the
> you know what out of the concrete on your driveway!
> I used some for a
> grease spot, and now have a slight indentation in my
> driveway where the
> grease spot was...good stuff, just gotta be
> careful..
> -----Original Message-----
> From: B&A Kettunen [mailto:bekett@uslink.net]
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 9:18 PM
> To: Oletrucks Board
> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] rust treatment
>
>
> Caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) will cut paint and
> grease, but will leave
> rust untouched. Muratic acid (zinc chloride) will
> cut rust, but can also
> etch clean metal. Use it sparingly. For my money,
> the caustic dip to
> remove paint is probably OK if it's followed by a
> good rinse and you know
> what you are doing. I would go real easy on the
> switching back and forth,
> though. Certainly don't mix these chemicals
> together.
>
> The phosphoric acid is the main chemical in many of
> the rust reformers and
> passivators. Clean or grind the paint and grease
> off, grind the worst of
> the loose rust off, coat with a reformer like Por15
> and that's about as
> good as you can get.
>
> Bruce Kettunen
> 57 3200
> Mt. Iron, MN
>
> > Have any of you heard of using caustic soda to
> cut rust from metal? I
> >read about it and the article said one treatment of
> soda followed by a
> >treatment of muratic acid and then soda again.
> Rinse with water and
> >apply pre paint metal prep. Is this off the wall
> stuff? Just curious.
> >Deacon 55 2nd
> >oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built
> between 1941 and 1959
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