On Jan 27, 11:57am, William Hartwell Woodruff wrote:
> Subject: question, comments, extemporaneous babbles
>
> Has anyone heard/ dealt with a company called Scarborough Faire?
> I got their catalog the other day and It seems like they have some good
> prices on big Healey stuff as well as other makes.
I have heard of and ordered parts from Scarborough Faire. It's been a while
but I seem to remember that they had better prices, especially for large orders,
but supply was sometimes a problem. They used to list their stuff under a
retail price and a wholesale price. If you could qualify for the wholesale
price, you could save money over Moss. This was back in the days when Moss
Motors and Scarborough Faire were the only two places in the country I could
find with Healey catalogs. The quality was good, lots of NOS parts as opposed
to repro parts.
> I stopped in a redi-strip place over the weekend. I was very
> impressed with their process. I saw some parts which looked like
> original castings when done. And they do get ALL the rust off, not some
> or most, but it is completely cleaned. I doubt you could get as good
> results sandbalsting esp. if you had an irregularly shaped part.
> From what I understand, the part is dipped in a paint remover tank, then
> put into the deruster which is an electrolytic process of some sort.
> When finished, they spray a water soluble rust inhibitor which lasts a
> month or so.
There used to be a redi-strip place, or one just like it, locally. I used to
take my body pieces and misc parts down there. Like you, I was generally
impressed with the process. This guy used to get a lot of older American car
frames (mostly Model T's and Model A's) with the occasional MG T(C/D/F). His
tanks were large enough for these frames to be done in a 2-step dipping process,
one half at a time.
When my Healey was restored, we had it dipped by some other place with a larger
tank. Small drainage holes were drilled in the frame, similar to the holes for
the hydraulic line clips. Unfortunately, there were some contaminates in the
tank from a previous operation that stuck to the frame after it came out. The
contaminates prevented good paint adhesion. So, after the welding and rust
repair work was completed, the frame was sandblasted before painting.
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