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CJHenderson

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Tearing down my Pagoda
« on: August 16, 2017, 23:40:59 »
Getting ready to go to the sandblasters and paint. Have the rear end and drive shaft to go and then build a dolly to roll it on to a trailer.
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johnk

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Re: Tearing down my Pagoda
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2017, 03:25:44 »
are they using glass beads?
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CJHenderson

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Re: Tearing down my Pagoda
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2017, 11:44:21 »
With the steel body that I have there is a lot of corrosion and several layers of paint so they will use sand. For the aluminum parts I have to find a shop that works with that type of metal.
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Re: Tearing down my Pagoda
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2017, 13:35:57 »
CJ,
I hope the shop doing the sandblasting is well versed in doing car bodies.  You can quite literally destroy a car by sandblasting it.  The metal gets hat and it warps horribly like the car went through a fire. 

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Re: Tearing down my Pagoda
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2017, 15:39:15 »
CJ,
Have you considered "strip cleaning" it ? It takes everything off, paint, bondo , rust.... and goes to areas you wouldn't be able to reach with blasting.
I did it and liked the outcome very much.
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CJHenderson

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Re: Tearing down my Pagoda
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2017, 11:21:17 »
What kind of stripper is the best? After reading the posts I'm hesitant about having my aluminum parts blasted.
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1950 MG-TD
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