On Wed, 23 Oct 1996 Trmgafun@aol.com wrote:
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> With the frame? I'd go with sandblasting hands down, there's no thin gauge
> metal to worry about warpage and sandblasting leaves an excellent paintable
> clean surface and is usually cheap by comparison. Plus if you dip the frame,
> you've got inside that has been stripped to worry about. Bead blasting is ok
> for thin gauge but it doesn't seem to get all of the rust.
I went the other way around... Dipped the frame, had the body
blasted. There's no rust protection inside the frame (hell there
was very little outside either). I didn't dip the body because of
the seam caulk in inaccessible areas that would be washed out in
the dippping process. The frame, on the other hand, was a snap.
I borrowed a rust proofing gun from a dealer and blew rust protectant
into every hole in the frame (I also drilled out 1/4" holes at
the bottom of the shock towers and sprayed in there too.
The only gripe I had with media blasting the body was that there
was no way of gettin ALL the "media" out of the crevices... I spent
better than an hour blowing out stuff from all the little hidden
spaces in the TR's body and still ahd some wafting about when I
sprayed on the primer... Nature of the beast, I suppose.
If I was to do it again I'd probably go the same route, though.
Greg Petrolati
gpetrola@prairienet.org 1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
"That's not a leak... My car is just marking its territory!"
Greg Petrolati, Champaign, Illinois
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