Stripping Paint

We had considered priming the bare metal parts of the car a week ago but the weather turned cold. The forecast was for better weather ahead so we used the cold days to stripping more areas. Stripping paint has to be one of my least favorite parts.

For stripping we did a combination of wire wheeling and sand blasting. The GT6 roof's rain rail/gutter folds over making it nearly impossible to see all the surface nonetheless remove the paint. The rain rail I sand blasted and even with the sand blaster it was difficult to get all the paint out. All down the inside the rain rail is a seam between the roof and the rail. It seemed to me it would be important to get a good layer of paint sticking in there to keep the water out. (pro tip don't put the ceramic nozzle into the rail and tip it. It will snap the tip off).

With warm weather forecast for this coming week we had set the goal of laying down primer on Monday the 9th. Work last week focused seeing how much we could get stripped ready for paint. We got the roof, sides, rear valence and rocker panels all cleaned off (Bulkhead, scuttle panel still have paint). I would have liked to get more stripped but Saturday we have tickets to the ballet and had to quit work on the car about 5pm.

I should mention that as expected working on areas showed other flaws that needed correcting. So there was also a good amount of weld touch up, additional grinding and sanding done.

Would also like to say that I sandblasted for several hours a couple of times. One session I had the compressors ruining for about 3 hours straight. The store bought water trap right before the blaster had only dust inside the bowl. There was no moisture at all. Opened the valve at the bottom of my homemade drip-leg and a good amount of water came out. Appears that perhaps my water troubles are over :-) Things went so well blasting a blasted several areas that I could have wire wheeled. But once it was out I figured I'd just keep blasting away.