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vwthingboy
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 Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 10:10 am Post subject: Stripping...paint, that is |
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Courtesy of a P.O., my car has a home paint job with visible drip areas.
The original coat was yellow as evidenced by the dash panels and engine compartment.
After Googling about the topic, it seems that some people use solvents or light sanding to take off one coat of paint.
Has anyone ever heard of this or tried it?
Sounds labor intensive and whatnot.
On a somewhat related note, have y'all seen this "Hoodride" phenomenon?
http://www.hoodride.com
Their manifesto is stated, in part, as: "Who decided cars were first meant to be status and second to be fun and exciting? HoodRides are first and always unique, loved, driven, and fun."
They seem to lower all of their cars and focus on original or oxidized-looking paint jobs. There's a funky bare-metal bus on there that looks pretty wild and a guy who covered a Fridolin with chalkboard paint. Pretty Creative. |
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Captain Spalding
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| Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:13 pm Post subject: Re: Stripping...paint, that is |
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| vwthingboy wrote: |
Courtesy of a P.O., my car has a home paint job with visible drip areas.
The original coat was yellow as evidenced by the dash panels and engine compartment.
After Googling about the topic, it seems that some people use solvents or light sanding to take off one coat of paint.
Has anyone ever heard of this or tried it?
Sounds labor intensive and whatnot. |
I'm not sure what you're after. Do you just want to remove the drips? Do you want to do a color change by removing only the top layer of paint?  Do you want the paint to look distressed when you're done, à la HoodRide? Whatever you want, it sounds labor intensive. But anything having to do with paint always is. |
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Towel Rail
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| Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 12:36 am Post subject: |
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Discussing Hoodride is a great way to get threads locked.
Dawn "Power Dissolver", if you can find it, makes a great paint stripper. Spray it on lightly, and it works slowly enough that you can remove individual layers by paying close attention.
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Captain Spalding
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| Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:28 am Post subject: |
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| Towel Rail wrote: |
| Discussing Hoodride is a great way to get threads locked. |
Please explain. |
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Towel Rail
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| Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Captain Spalding wrote: |
| Towel Rail wrote: |
| Discussing Hoodride is a great way to get threads locked. |
Please explain. |
It's what generally happens.
Hopefully not here, but keep watching the "Pimp My Ride" thread.
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Captain Spalding
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| Towel Rail wrote: |
| Captain Spalding wrote: |
| Towel Rail wrote: |
| Discussing Hoodride is a great way to get threads locked. |
Please explain. |
It's what generally happens.
Hopefully not here, but keep watching the "Pimp My Ride" thread. |
Okay, I get it. I haven't been following the Pimp thread. I usually loose interest after the first "I know you are, but what am I." 
That's not to say that I haven't stirred the pot myself once or twice.  |
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Thingster
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If you want to completely strip the paint, go and buy a jug of "Jet stripper". You smear it on, the paint curdles up, scrape it off, and then wash the residue off. Work one section at a time and you'll have no issues, if you try to work too much at once the stripper ::WILL:: eat away at the underlying metal.
Justin
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Towel Rail
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| Thingster wrote: |
If you want to completely strip the paint, go and buy a jug of "Jet stripper". You smear it on, the paint curdles up, scrape it off, and then wash the residue off. Work one section at a time and you'll have no issues, if you try to work too much at once the stripper ::WILL:: eat away at the underlying metal.
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What I like about the Power Dissolver (not that Jet Stripper is not also a good product), it how slow it works -- spray a decent film onto it, leave it overnight, and the paint has softened so you can just scrape it off in the morning. Cover it with a piece of cellophane and it works even faster, with no damage to the metal whatsoever. It's great stuff, and cheap at the grocery store. 
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bmwloco
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I can highly recomend Aircraft Stripper. The stuff flat works. It's gotta be evil to do what it does, but dang, it sure takes off paint.
Naval Jelly is good too.
I used both to take my dearly departed (but at a top price) 912 Targa down to bare steal on the pan.
Wear gloves, a long sleeved shirt, and a good hat/toboggan. Have fun. |
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vwthingboy
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Thanks for the replies.
I'm not ready to completely strip the paint yet.
I'll save that for when I'm ready (financially) for a nice professional paint job.
I thought it would be interesting to take off the bad home-job coat of paint if that's possible, but it sounds rather tough/impossible to do. |
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icekoffee
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[quote="Captain Spalding"]
| Towel Rail wrote: |
| Captain Spalding wrote: |
| Towel Rail wrote: |
| Discussing Hoodride is a great way to get threads locked. |
Please explain. |
It's what generally happens.
Hopefully not here, but keep watching the "Pimp My Ride" thread. |
HOODRIDE!!
i support hoodride and what they are about. they all have been very friendly and a joy to be around. mt beetle is a hoodride type car but my thing is going for show instead
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Towel Rail
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| vwthingboy wrote: |
| I thought it would be interesting to take off the bad home-job coat of paint if that's possible, but it sounds rather tough/impossible to do. |
Nah, it's super-easy. Repainting is the hard part!
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