Skip to content
Aussieveedubbers

Panel preparation advice wanted

0 likes
Share Share on Facebook Share on X Share on Reddit

soft notch Officially Full-On Dubber

218 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·

#457557
To try and save a few bucks on the notch resto, i'm intending to strip down the replacement panels I've got hold of to bare metal.. what's the best way to do this? Is there a place I can go and get them to dip it in a big vat of something and pull it out stripped for a hundred bucks? Or is it a matter of getting some paint stripper and a roll of sandpaper and setting aside a weekend?
In the worlds before Monkey primal chaos reigned. heaven sought order, but he pheonix can fly only when its feathers are grown. the 4 worlds formed again and yet again, as the endless aoens weild and passed. Time and the pure essence of heaven and the moisture of the earth all worked upon a certain rock old as creation. And it became mgically fertile. That first egg was named "Thought". Thathaga Buddha, the father Buddha, said with our thoughts we make the world. Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch and from it came a stone monkey! The nature of MONKEY WAS IREPRESSIBLE!!!!! !

helbus Administrator Mad fabricator, paint and body

7,386 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#457619
Clean & strip wheels are a fantastic way to strip panels to bare metal. You can get them on a spindle to go in the drill, or on a fibreglass depressed centre backing to go on an angle grinder. SIA brand ones are pretty good. $20 odd for a 5" one or down to $14 for a 4". You could do two guards with one approx. The finish is good as they don't grind any metal off, and they are coarse enought to linish surface rust off.

Acid dipping is quick & easy, but maybe $80 a panel. You definitley want to get them home straight away and hose them down for a couple of hours to positivley remove all acid as any residue will create rust.

Finally there is bead blasting. You must ring around and find a place that is experienced in vehicle panels and wont turn your panels into junk.
EJ22 into Bay Microbus - Finished project build thread- click on this spot here for info

modulus Veteran Volks Folk

2,009 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·

#457622
Hi Helbus,
Do you know a retail outlet for the SIA clean & strip wheels?

tia
Peter Hill
1975 Type 2 Double Cab
modulus.com.au