Photos of Jan and Kidd !

LOL

I admit, I'm whipped :)

The first priorities so far have been fixing her car... and installing new speakers. When she's not around, I get to work on my Jeep..

Jan

you *sure*?

Only 14C daytime and about 4C @ night.. :) And it rains almost for a whole week.....

27C sounds like music in my ears 'cause there's a ACVW meeting coming up 16th of june. I know 2 weeks from now is hard to predict but with the weather going on like it is, it is prety nasty. Well, one way to turn a swap meet into a swamp meet 8-)

How is your paint stripping Remco?

Roger

Spring in Connecticut is like summer in Holland. When I first came here I thought it was just too hot and lasted too long until I lived through my first July/August (it gets over 38C then). I'm used to it now -- all I have to remember is that I need sun block lotion and sunglasses. :) We're having some nice bug shows coming up that I am also looking forward to. I love summer.

Paint stripping is coming along nicely. I started with areas that were suspect, using this household cleaner that strips paint quite well. (different story: someone's wife on theSamba found it stripped paint by accident - it works great, is cheap and is not particularly nasty stuff). I don't want to get too far ahead of myself and strip the whole thing. I'll first try and fix problem areas (at least it has paint on it now, protecting it somewhat).

Remco

I think so...

I'll ask my wife after she comes home. :)

LOL....I can't ask my wife, she has forbidden me to speak...

Paint stripping is coming along nicely. I started with areas that were suspect, using this household cleaner that strips paint quite well. (different story: someone's wife on theSamba found it stripped paint by accident - it works great, is cheap and is not particularly nasty stuff). I don't want to get too far ahead of myself and strip the whole thing. I'll first try and fix problem areas (at least it has paint on it now, protecting it somewhat).

Remco

Yeah, i read your post about it earlier... Sounds wonderfull! The reason i ask is because i found some blisters in my suposendly pristeen paintjob :( I got it painted early 2001 by a known and respected body shop in the neighbourhood. I guess they 1: didn't prep it the right way, or.. 2: didn't sand it down to bare metal in those area's

Anyway; i do need to paint my car next winter and am looking for an easy/quick way to get to bare metal. My only concern is, how will the paint react on metal that has been stripped from paint the toxic way? You guessed it, i will follow your moves closely the next 6 months ;)

Roger

That SUCKS! Sorry to hear that. Will you be painting the whole car again or just take the bad sections down to the metal?

I am not any kind of body expert. Body work is new to me and am just learning as I go. In other words, be careful what example you follow: a stranded ship serves as a beacon to others. :)

The stripper I am using is not caustic as far as I can tell. Not sure if you can get it in Holland, but here they call it "Dawn Power Dissolver" - Dawn is the brand name that makes cleaners for around the house like dishwasher detergent, etc. Also having furniture restoration as a hobby, I've used nasty strippers and this stuff is great: it does not smell bad nor stings when you get some on your skin. The cheap coat of paint that is on the car now almost falls off with this Dawn stuff. It does not remove bondo (that would have been really nice :)

First I'm going to work on the suspected bad spots and will leave the paint on most of the car. After those sections are repaired, I might get it all media blasted. The work will be done in bitesize chunks because it may obviously take a while - don't want to strip the car down to have it sit bare too long.

I'd like to learn to paint the car myself so am debating what kind of HVLP set up to get. Those turbine HVLP systems seem to be the weapon of choice - toying aroun with one, the control you have with those guns is quite nice. I've played with regular compressed air HVLP guns hooked up to my compressor and they work well enough for furniture purposes but that's usually quite forgiving work. From what I've been told, that set up would most likely not be adequate for painting a car.

That's the plan. Hopefully not too many things will go awry :)

Remco

Remco - I thought better of you !!!!

Rich

Ooops! :)

If y'all don't end this threat pretty soon, I'm gonna post of picture of me and Molly. :) That shoud do it.

peace, john

you don't have the balls to do that....

YEAH! We triple-dog-dare ya!! (notice how I skipped the single and double dog dare? :)

yeah i see you pulled out the big guns...

Too late John, Kidd already whipped Jan into shape. Now stop giving him that kind of advice, if Kidd finds him reading this kind of stuff she might punish him just in case he THINKS to do something about it.

Karls

John Willis wrote:

I *think* it's best to go to bare metal again/this time. I've seen it bare metal back then so i assume they preped it well, however, not in the edges. To avoid any colour differenses i want it painted all over, sad but true.

Keep up the good work, Roger

On 31 May 2006 06:04:09 -0700, "Karls" scribbled this interesting note:

Perhaps he would do it because he likes that kind of thing???

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