[Shop-talk] How to remove surface rust over entire car?

[Karl Vacek]

Then dipping might be good.  You drop off, pay, and pick up.  Redi-Strip is 
nationally known and I hope OK today (they ruined the wood in my Model T 
body 32 years ago so I'd never return), but they're expensive.

Local places in this area have generally offered far better prices, with the 
added advantage of dealing with the people likely to be involved in or at 
least directly supervising the actual work.  People I know who've used some 
of the local places love them.  Redi-Strip here, in the Chicago area, is a 
bigger operation (they do lots of industrial parts) and you're unlikely to 
get any personal contact with the guys handling your car/parts/whatever.

Karl



> How much time are we talking about here to do a fairly extensive rollcage
> and areas of the car's unibody that have been modified?
>
> Part of why the car is sitting instead of being worked on is that we're up
> to our eyeballs in projects these days and have a 1.5 year old that can't
> be out in the shop unless someone is holding him.
>
> I was really hoping for some kinda "take it to this kinda place, pay them
> $500, and that's what you need" type of deal... Like I can devote a couple
> afternoons to this, but not that much more time.
>
> Soda blasting?  Is that more like what I want?