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Ian Samba Moderator
Joined: August 28, 2002 Posts: 4930 Location: 713
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Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 11:21 am Post subject: |
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JEDI PIMP wrote: |
Thats why i started on the outside and also why its parked outside the garage for now.... Ive got a 3M respirator I use to do the nasty stuff. I will also be wearing a throw away pair of coveralls and rubber gloves. Everything has been doused with bleach water but Im still a little scared of the poop.
To clean the bus I used Mr Clean disinfectant cleaner and a soft brush to get the big stuff and then I used a 50/50 mix of CLR and water to get at the surface rust. I still need to get the top but I need to acquire a ladder first. |
There is disinfectant spray that you can find at janitorial supply houses that will kill HIV and Hauntavirus. I douse my field Buses in it. _________________ All your Buses are belong to us.
Love and good roads!
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Mango Juice Samba Member
Joined: February 11, 2001 Posts: 908 Location: U.S.A
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Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 11:33 am Post subject: |
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great find!!......cleaning up very nice too!....keep up the good work!! |
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Simon uk Samba Member
Joined: November 13, 2003 Posts: 555
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Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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awesome clean up! Have you tried much in the way of any more buffing on it yet?
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Braukuche Samba Member
Joined: September 03, 2004 Posts: 10998
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Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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Looking good. I would research into whether or not those 3m masks filter viruses. The main thing is to avoid the dust.
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daniel5560 Samba Member
Joined: August 20, 2003 Posts: 260 Location: Western Mass
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Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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It's unbelievable how just a simple cleaning can really bring a car back to life. Nice work. |
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neonrick Samba Member
Joined: February 03, 2006 Posts: 579 Location: Tampa, Florida
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Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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Love the first clean up! I know how you must be feeling!! My bus was night and day after the first wash also!! Keep it going!! |
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my65vert Samba Member
Joined: November 09, 2003 Posts: 6186 Location: Middleburg, Florida
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Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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use strait clr and it will get rid of the rest of those rust stains. _________________ OGJHC
Kombisutra;
I'm starting to get little wafts of bus stink coming from the north. Something about the unique scent of drivers seat padding when it's glued together with mouse piss and shit that really gets me going... and I'm smelling it! Oh yeah! Time to start loading up the equipment. |
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volksfahrer.nl Samba Member
Joined: September 18, 2003 Posts: 2128 Location: Delft Holland
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Jeff Power Samba Member
Joined: October 13, 2004 Posts: 1170 Location: with any luck, in my garage building bass guitars.
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Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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JEDI PIMP wrote: |
Its first bath in 34 years!
here is before and afters.
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Restoration Complete!!
Awesome find, very cool for Florida! Not as rusty as I would expect for our humid climate. _________________ I build complete Westy Style camping interiors check them out here > www.rjcampers.com
Check out my basses here www.ellabasses.com
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Nothing says "I love busses" more than picking up a mouse turd filled with horse hair seat padding |
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Pierre G Samba Member
Joined: April 28, 2007 Posts: 1771 Location: New Caledonia
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Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, congrats on your find and cleaning it. Take care of that mice/rats urine or whatever. I just read about haunta and that's scaring... _________________ 1976 181/Thing, 1967 fastback, 1973 squareback, 1964 microbus, 1967 Double Cab, 1969 westfalia (currently under resto), 1972 LM1C dune buggy, 1974 jean's bug, 1974 1303 (super beetle, currently under reassembly after new paint). |
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bushaus Samba Member
Joined: November 18, 2007 Posts: 809 Location: Long Beach, Calif
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:16 am Post subject: |
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Incredible cleanup! Thanks for documenting it.
When you take those ceiling panels off inside, you will be caught in rat poop rainfall. Good luck and protect yo' self. _________________ 1967 13 window walkthru bus
1965 Karmann Kabriolett beetle
hitest wrote: |
Even if completed, the abarth's gonna belch spluey all over your Eriba. |
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Rain's Westy Samba Member
Joined: February 27, 2004 Posts: 498
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 1:00 am Post subject: |
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I wish I had documented mine when I got it as it looked exactly like yours before cleaning... this is bring ing bad memory's of all the work I did to decrud my bus in the beginning.. |
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vwspijlbus Samba Member
Joined: December 23, 2003 Posts: 546 Location: The Netherlands
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 6:27 am Post subject: |
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Great find!
Congrats! _________________ Frank
1967 Dutch SO-42
www.vwspijlbus.blogspot.com |
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crukab Samba Chef
Joined: December 13, 2002 Posts: 6116 Location: Vermont
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 6:51 am Post subject: |
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Nice Job on the clean up. How are the neighbors w/ that in the driveway ?
I'd suggest large wooden "Victor" Snap traps w/a "Dots" candy as bait, I've bagged 6 mice so far this season w/ the smaller traps, and 3 chipmunks w/ the bigger trap. _________________ Tom
My Pops:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=604100&highlight=
I know you will always be with me, rest in peace with no more pain. 8/13/14.....
In the yard right now:
'51 Dodge 5 window truck
'65 Bug
'66 Singlecab
'82 Rabbit Truck Diesel from CALI
'86 Doublecab W/T
'91 Vanagon carat/wolfsbrg.Tiico
'88 Dodge Ram pickup
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LAGrunthaner Samba Member
Joined: March 18, 2007 Posts: 5506 Location: 1st Coast
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 7:50 am Post subject: |
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Awesome cleanup she is so solid looking. Can hardly wait to see more pics thanks for the updates.
Lin _________________ American Red Cross Safe And Well:
https://www.redcross.org/about-us/news-and-events/...bsite.html
Maui Roadsters
www.mauiroadsters.com
http://www.oacdp.org
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Have you considered simply starting with a nicer bus? I don't know what your skills are, but the race is easier if you can see the finish line. If you are not a runner, don't start off doing a marathon. |
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Clara Samba Member
Joined: June 14, 2003 Posts: 12399
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 9:03 am Post subject: |
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crukab wrote: |
Nice Job on the clean up. How are the neighbors w/ that in the driveway ?
I'd suggest large wooden "Victor" Snap traps w/a "Dots" candy as bait, I've bagged 6 mice so far this season w/ the smaller traps, and 3 chipmunks w/ the bigger trap. |
I have a cat who considers rodents to be squeaky toys and snacks.
From time to time she's invited me to play mouse soccer. (the mouse gets to be the ball).
If a bus sits a while in her territory, the rodents don't seem to move in. Hmmm.
At one point a friend had a albino corn snake that was raised in capitivity and ate dead mice. She'd buy frozen mice (micicles), defrost one in warm water, then put it in the cage and poke it with a stick and the snake (J. Willy) would eat it. One spring I was getting, my cat was giving me a gift mouse almost every day, that's in addition to the ones she ate and would just leave the heads and the green things. Serious rodent carnage going on. My friend asked me to freeze the rodents for her snake. So I did, and gave them to her. Her snake started growing more quickly. Which just goes to show that nice fat spring wildcrafted mice are more nutritous than factory farmed ones. Also, one of the factory farmed micicles she defrosted was putrid, so she was less than impressed with their quality control and safety standards.
Oh ya, bus is looking good! _________________ The Obsolete Air-Cooled Documentation Project http://oacdp.org/ |
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skidmarksgarage.com Samba Member
Joined: May 17, 2006 Posts: 605 Location: Belleview (Not the nutt-house)
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 10:06 am Post subject: |
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Nice find and great clean-up.
I just wish I wasn't eating my lunch when I read Claras' post. _________________ http://skidmarksgarage.com/
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suebug Samba Member
Joined: April 13, 2006 Posts: 1151 Location: The OC, SoCal, with my olympic cats
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 10:36 am Post subject: |
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Clara wrote: |
At one point a friend had a albino corn snake that was raised in capitivity and ate dead mice. She'd buy frozen mice (micicles), defrost one in warm water, then put it in the cage and poke it with a stick and the snake (J. Willy) would eat it. One spring I was getting, my cat was giving me a gift mouse almost every day, that's in addition to the ones she ate and would just leave the heads and the green things. Serious rodent carnage going on. My friend asked me to freeze the rodents for her snake. So I did, and gave them to her. Her snake started growing more quickly. Which just goes to show that nice fat spring wildcrafted mice are more nutritous than factory farmed ones. Also, one of the factory farmed micicles she defrosted was putrid, so she was less than impressed with their quality control and safety standards.
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Just a heads up on the wild-mice-fed-to-captive-snakes, captive snakes grow up with sano mice and rats as food, whether live or frozen, and you never know what that little choice wild one has been eating. We just snagged a rat in our garage and as nice and plump and healthy as it appeared, it went in the trash, not into any of our pythons. Just couldn't risk it. _________________ '67 Beetle
'67 Squareback
'66 Sundial
'60 Single cab
'70 Bitchen 3-speed Schwinn |
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70 140 Samba Member
Joined: September 22, 2002 Posts: 8471 Location: Ontario Canada
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 11:16 am Post subject: |
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Nice clean up. I can't believe how much better it looks. I'm guessing that that aluminum strip attached to the rain gutter is for the tent that the critters ate?
You should tell you neighbor the election is over
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ritchiet002 Samba Member
Joined: January 27, 2003 Posts: 1676 Location: Kaneohe, HI
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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Speaking of neighbors, they must have shit when they saw this in your driveway!!
Here is a CLR link http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=213707 _________________ Somewhere there is a jar with your name on it!
From now on, I'm gonna connect the dots my own way!______________________________________ |
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