fekin rust!

Scottd · Post by **Scottd** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:34 pm

My dad got his for about £60 from the car boot sale at Erol

That's not much help to you tho

They're good for blowing up tyres too

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:37 pm

Needs about 10CFM so needs to be a hefty one. Have heard that a little one will do with a big reciever...

Hambo · Post by **Hambo** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:02 am

Befor I sand blasted my grils I saved a lot of time by Blowlamp first.
Paint gos crispy and is blasted off ezalay

ceejam · Post by **ceejam** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:59 am

You'd need quitre a big cabinet to do wheels. We've got an old Gunson one, and tend not to do anything bigger than Mini rocker covers.

Also, it takes ages to blast something like a grill.

£10 each to get them blasted and powder coated is probably only marginally more than buying a tin each of etch primer and top coat!

For blasting alloy, glass beads give a nice finish. grit can be used to remove stuck on muck / paint, but leaves a very rough finish.

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:38 am

The cabinet I'm looking at is a DIY one made form MDF, so the size is down to how big I make it! I would like the option of wheels, but not going to make a habit of it (yet) I just like the idea of tidying up small bits mostly.

DaveG · Post by **DaveG** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:34 pm

Scottd wrote: I remember Dave Guthries Silver S1 went it's whole life without having the grilles painted, not a good look

Oi!

Anyway that is my old car, and I must have stripped and painted those grills (front included) about 3 or 4 times while I had it! Tried satin black plasticote stuff last time after a thorough scrubbing and three coats of primer. Nothing seems to last.

Corranga wrote:At least your car is dark green. Mine is silver, and now has orange rusty run lines coming from the rear grills. Strange that the front grill doesn't seem to rust anywhere near as much as the rear?!

A wee bit of t-cut or similar gets the rusty stains off the paint.

Corranga wrote: and how the heck to you get em off?

I doubt it will have lasted, but whenever I was replacing the rubber rawl nuts (available from B&Q last timie I looked) I always coated the threads with a lot of coppa-slip to ease taking them off later, as I realised it was gonna be a regular job. Failing that, carefully cut the bolt heads off with a dremmel or something if they just keep turning.

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