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Re: [Spridgets] Undercoating

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Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Undercoating
From: <cmanuel@wi.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:59:09 +0000
Could there be a way to get dry ice on it and freeze dry it off?

Chris
---- brian S <bugeye15@hotmail.com> wrote: 
> Hi Mike,
> Probably easiest (heheh, still a PITA and not really easy)way would be heat
> gun and a scraper.Then solvent and rags to get the residual.Or since you're
> stripping it to a bare shell,flip it over, a little gas to get it started,
> light it and wait till it all burns off.<VBG>Well, it WOULD work......don't
> know if the Hamptoniteswould be too understanding of all the black smoke
> tho....
> 
> Brian S.
> Bugeyeracer finally resto'ed!
> 
> 
> 
> > Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:53:40 -0400
> > From: mdrowe@optonline.net
> > To: spridgets@autox.team.net
> > Subject: [Spridgets] Undercoating
> >
> > It turns out my BE undercoating was put on over bare metal and at least some
> of it peals off easily.  So it will have to be stripped.  I don't know what
> the undercoating is.  This nasty is like fresh roofing tar; it remains sticky
> and makes a mess of anything that touches it.  Maybe it *is* roofing tar.
> >
> > How do I strip it?  If I use a solvent, it will just dissolve an make a
> thinner mess over an even wider area.  I need something that leaves the tar
> unable to stick to anything else.  Is there a product that turns oil-based goo
> into a jell?  Aircraft Stripper? Eastwood makes a stripper specifically for
> undercoating.  Has anyone used it?
> >
> > Tarball Rowe
> > '74 Midget
> > '60 Sprite
> > Long Island, NY
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