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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Exterior down to bare steel (video)


I've been stripping the exterior with paint stripper (both Jasco and Kleen Strip) and have most of it down to bare steel.  Once the 4 layers of paint (original  Leaf Green, primer and white, primer and blue, primer and some black) were stripped I cleaned the exterior to neutralize the stripper.  I then proceeded to use a red Scotchbrite pad and some phosphoric acid/metal etch to prepare the exterior for paint.  I also used a wire wheel to clean up any plastic body filler that was on the car.  There was really very little bodywork done on the car over the last 50+ years and I was totally amazed that there was virtually no rust.  Here is a video of where things are at this point.



 
1959 Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite

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