37 Ford build--IE: old Header issues thread /37 Ford/5.0/GT40P heads

[randyr]

I got one of the front fenders stripped today but I didn't take a pic of it yet. It's not quite as bad as I thought it would be. I wanted to send it all to a media blaster but that's just not in the budget right now. I had a gallon of stripper sitting around so I decided to put it to use! The hard part is getting everything out of the little corners & crevices with this method....any tips?

[IC2]

I got one of the front fenders stripped today but I didn't take a pic of it yet. It's not quite as bad as I thought it would be. I wanted to send it all to a media blaster but that's just not in the budget right now. I had a gallon of stripper sitting around so I decided to put it to use! The hard part is getting everything out of the little corners & crevices with this method....any tips?

Randy - Harbor Freight have several low end media blasters, i.e around $15 bucks or so. They aren't the best, but with some of their media(Starblast) (or even mason's sand for a small area) will clean up most residue and tough to sand paint. I used one when I had to get the Brookville red primer from behind the cowl lip on my car and it worked OK. This area here, both sides:



I then sold the blaster at a swap meet for about what I paid for it

[randyr]

Randy - Harbor Freight have several low end media blasters, i.e around $15 bucks or so. They aren't the best, but with some of their media(Starblast) (or even mason's sand for a small area) will clean up most residue and tough to sand paint. I used one when I had to get the Brookville red primer from behind the cowl lip on my car and it worked OK. This area here, both sides:

I then sold the blaster at a swap meet for about what I paid for it

Hey Dave, I bought a 20gal media blaster a few months ago but quickly realized my compressor isn't big enough to run it. So it's still sitting in my garage looking very shiny & new. Maybe I can find somebody fairly close by with a big compressor who'll let me plug into it for a couple of hours.
It feels good to be moving forward again....even if it's still very slowly!