[Shop-talk] Removing bondo

[John T. Blair]

At 07:45 PM 10/19/2011, Douglas Braun wrote:

 >I have an old fender (for a '31 Ford) that has a coat of bondo 
about 1/8" thick all over it.  Does anybody
 >know a good way to remove it?  I will eventually sandblast the 
fender, but I am worried that the bondo
 >will be resistant to sandblasting, sort of the way rubber or some 
plastics are.

Doug,

I had a fender like that on my Volvo P1800.  What I used was a 4" 
grinder with a wire wheel on it.  The
wire wheel tore through the bondo very easily.  It made a good bit of 
a mess, the bondo dust everywhere. :)  But it worked well, and easily.

John

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