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#104750 06/16/2003 1:49 AM
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My 70 chevy (see pictures in gallery) still has the original lacquer paint on it. (What's left.) I need to strip it off. How hard is it for me to do this myself, and what is the process?

Are there any good products that make it easy? I appreciate any input.

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#104751 06/16/2003 3:29 AM
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try POR Strip its made by the POR15 people. incase you didnt connect the names...I have used it...its great stuff. just need to be careful with it. it smells bad and stings if you get it on your skin. and the taste is well....ok I never tasted it...you just spray it on and in a few minutes scrape it off. the best part is its fast and it dries up and you can sweep the dust up off your garage floor. not all goo like some other strippers...paint strippers.....

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There are many methods you can use but one of the fastest and least expensive may be a fine to medium wire wheel on a 4 -4.5 inch grinder. A light touch and you get down to bare metal very quickly. Wire wheels are about $15.00 at Sears Hardware and others. Wear a mask, gloves, ear protection and face shield. Do not use an ultra stiff wheel or it will remove more than paint. This will leave a good surface profile for your primer to adhere to. Other methods include chemical strippers (messy and $$), sand blasting (slow and messy), or sanding with a dual action sander (slow). Good Luck

In reply to MartinSR - there is no "problem" (worn out clique) in Houston or anywhere else when using the wire wheel method on old paint.

If you get agressive with it you may cause damage but if you use the "light touch" the old paint will come right off with no heat build up or metal damage. If the paint is new then other methods might work better.

#104753 06/16/2003 10:46 PM
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I used stuff called Jet Strip from O'Reiley's (About $20 a Gallon)put it on with an old paintbrush, Wait 10 minutes(The paint will start bubbleing up), Use a razor blade to scrape and the laquer shaves off like chocolate. Then repeat for the layers of primer.
some friends and I did the Cab of my 53 in one evening. The evening before that I had spent several hours on just one little spot.
(See previous post http://www.stovebolt.com/bboard/cgi-bin//ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=4;t=001373 )
But be sure you do this outside on a breezy day or in a shop with good ventilation we had a 6 foot tall fan running in the back wall of the shop and it still made me light headed if I was between that stuff and the fan.
After we got the paint off I hit it with some 80 grit sandpaper in the DA sander to clean up anything the stripper didn't get and then went back over the whole cab with 120 then 220 sandpaper to get it really clean and smooth. That's only after you Bondo or weld up the holes you find when you get it down to bare metal.

You Can Do it yourself!
Up til we did my cab I had a Phobia of body work, now I'm rareing to start work on the other parts of my truck.
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#104754 06/17/2003 2:57 AM
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"Houston, we have a problem" Sorry, I just had to say that. smile Listen, using a wire brush on a grinder is about the worse thing you could use. I have tried many different ways over the years and wire brush seems to "polish" the paint more than remove it. It creates LOTS of heat eek

A much better way it with 3M "ROLOC" or "Clean and strip" discs. After you have used them, you will throw the wire brushes in the garbage.


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#104755 06/17/2003 6:11 PM
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Far less toxic but still powerful is Citristrip, an orange slime that will partially liquefy paint in about 10-15 minutes (less if you work in direct sunlight). Spread with a brush, remove with a putty knife; the paint came off in wet sheets. Concentrated citric acid, so you still want to wear gloves, but makes the truck smell like Orange Crush. grin

Martin, I agree that a wire brush will tend to "shine" unbroken paint rather than strip it off; however, I used a braided wire cup which digs into the surface better than a brush (this is probably more aggressive than most folks need). The advantage was I could take off paint, surface rust, bondo, bird crap, and anything else with just a couple passes. My truck was (is?) crumpled like an old beer can, so I wasn't overly concerned with warping. wink


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