Jan did some checking around also and found Redi Strip locations in Indianapolis
and Columbus. They are able to provide us much quicker turn around times than
the place we are using now. I think the place were are now using has just about
lost our business. They have really inconvenienced us on this las body we took
to them. It should have been ready last October and they are now telling us it
won't be ready until March! We may even be picking it up and taking it to Redi
Strip! - Ian
Eddie Donovan wrote:
> I don't want to stretch this out any more than it has already been so here
> goes. I have spent a good deal of time in the last several weeks looking for
> shops that would "dip" my Alpine bodies. There had not been a lot of
> locations identified, other than the shop that Ian & Co. uses, that could do
> this work. Redi-Strip, in the Vancouver area had been identified as the only
> other location.
>
> I have found another (thanks to a hint from John Slade)! There is a shop
> called "Techno Strip" in Brampton (just outside Toronto), Ontario, that also
> does this work. Their website is http://technostrip.com/ and their
> telephone number is (905)459-6196. Their page on auto restoration starts
> with: "If you are restoring a car, we have a battery of 20 ft long, 8 ft
> wide and 6 ft deep dipping tanks that will remove paint and rust from
> miscellaneous steel and aluminium parts...". There is an older newspaper
> article on the site that lists their prices to be in the range of $800 -
> $1,200 CDN ($500 to 800 USD) so given the normal increase of costs over time
> it should be comparable to prices that Ian and others have quoted.
>
> Now to work out the mode and costs of shipping the stripped down Alpine to
> Brampton.
>
>
> Eddie Donovan
> Carlsbad Springs, Ontario
> Canada
> Series II, 1961 - B9108405 LRX - Being restored
> Series II, 1961 - B9104430 ODLR - Future project
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