35th Anniversary Wheel Project

[Orange Terror]

ouch.

well..

you have all the time in the world!

As long as you finish your project before OT's

I got just a couple more things to do to mine there buddy.

[JoeliusZ28]

Just imagine the face and lip of those chrome and make them motorsports and thats what I'll be doing this spring

that looks awesome!

paint stripper isn't bad until you get it in a cut on your hands, then it burns pretty good. Anyways good luck on the project, and remember to only brush the stripper in one direction also i've noticed if there is a breeze or wind it helps alot more.

ive been wearing gloves... with enough exposure you wont have a fingerprint after working with this stuff. it literally polishes your skin smooth lol.

Good progress Joel! Don't listen to these yahoo's about media blasting.....they don't know what they are talking about. You would never be able to preserve that machined surface under a blasting enviroment. And even if you were to uses a super light media such as walnut or poly it would still eff up the machined surface...aluminum is just to soft to withstand that type of abuse. Chemical stripping is the only way to do it without having to refinish the machined surface.

lol thanks. if i had to do this again, id still be using chemical stripper!

time to go see what kind of progress was made overnight

[sman]

time to go see what kind of progress was made overnight

Well? Howd it go?

[JoeliusZ28]

its going slow. spots of this paint are pretty tough. i went and bought more stripper and im dousing it in the stuff now, its just a matter of time.

I think the paint stripper is starting to get to me too

[JAdair]

To high right now to go out there and get er done haha

[WMCCjames]

You are wearing a respirator right?

[JoeliusZ28]

You are wearing a respirator right?

no, dont have one. the fume isnt strong at all, its just starting to get to me smelling it all day. It actually smells just like PB blaster which i am also using on my panhard rod at the moment... im just tired of smelling this stuff.

[BP_Z28]

looking good joel!

[JoeliusZ28]

im beginning to get a little pissed now. I have about 80% of the paint off on every wheel but the rest isnt budging. I was using a small, soft piece of wood to scrape remains with and discovered it was scratching For some reason the stripper doesnt want to cut this last little bit out

[BP_Z28]

oh snap

how bad are the scratches?

[Derek]

oh snap

how bad are the scratches?

i dont understand how wood could scratch metal... even if it does scuff it should polish up later..

[WMCCjames]

no, dont have one. the fume isnt strong at all, its just starting to get to me smelling it all day. It actually smells just like PB blaster which i am also using on my panhard rod at the moment... im just tired of smelling this stuff.

Little tip for ya in the future.....respirators not only protect from fumes, but they filter out all smells too! I recentley had the unfortunate experience of having to clean up someone else's puke.......once I put on the respirator it wasn't nearly as bad of a task

[JoeliusZ28]

i dont understand how wood could scratch metal... even if it does scuff it should polish up later..

beats me!!! theyre hairline scratches, not deep at all but when the light hits them right they are there. I was thrilled. I think i only did it to 3 or 4 spokes on one wheel, no big deal i guess.

I also just tried our crappy powerwasher on one of them. Results = me soaked, and crappy powerwasher broken. paint = still there

[JAdair]

beats me!!! theyre hairline scratches, not deep at all but when the light hits them right they are there. I was thrilled. I think i only did it to 3 or 4 spokes on one wheel, no big deal i guess.

I also just tried our crappy powerwasher on one of them. Results = me soaked, and crappy powerwasher broken. paint = still there

DOH and bein out in the cold sucks by your powerwasher

[JoeliusZ28]

no, powerwasher got owned. its days were numbered anyway.