[SpaceDawg]

Hi,

Just wondered if anyone had any advice on stripping the paint of a 90. My 90 had been sprayed olive green army style but its a rush job and its coming of exposing the blue the vehicle used to be.

I want to strip it back as far as I can to get a good surface for spraying, I was thinking of using some poly abrasive disks and paint stripper (recommendation for the paint stripper would be good) then we and dry.

I don't want to dent the panels and I'm assuming they should be ok stripped for a little while as they are all alloy?

Is this the right thing to do or should I be looking to do it another way.

Thanks

 

[muckmuck]

Plenty of rubbing with various grades of discs an paper, personally I wouldn't use paint stripper would possibly make more work for yourself? Unless you plan on taking it down to bare Ali ?

 

[SpaceDawg]

Yup the problem I have its it had a couple of bad jobs done on it so I was thinking of going back to the bare ali.

 

[MrNasty]

Don't go back to bare ali if you can avoid it, I did that a couple of years ago, took two weeks, and then had to use Acid 8 etch primer, then grey primer over that. Wet sand it down to the original black primer if you can and start from there.

You can of course get a reaction over the old paint with the new, that's why I had to go back to ali, and it's a right pain in the ass, if you don't get proper adhesion the paint will flake off.

From start to finish my 100 inch took 3 months to do, was really happy with it when it was done though.

6 weeks in.

Finished, 6 light coats of paint sprayed by me, then cut back with cutting paste, finished it last March and now sold.

 

[trax]

you can use isolators, but it depends on the quality of the old paint. you can get a fair few reactions to different things.

what you spraying it with?

 

[MrNasty]

Cellulose, main issue was the umpteen other coats of paint that looked awful with flaking layers, plus whatever the red paint layer was it would cause the primer to shrivel up.

 

[trax]

Cellulose, main issue was the umpteen other coats of paint that looked awful with flaking layers, plus whatever the red paint layer was it would cause the primer to shrivel up.

looks nice. you can come and do mine if you want

 

[MrNasty]

Bring it down to Suffolk, leave it with me for a month or two, oh yeah, we can discuss payment options.

 

[SpaceDawg]

The problem I have is the current paint job is reacting with the layer/s underneath the top coat. I was going to take it back to ally and then etch prime it, then primer and top coat.

I have found someone to do the spraying now at a reasonable cost, when I said I'd take all the paint off the price halved, so its now £1,500 for the job and not the £3k I was getting quoted from most place.

The other option would be for me to get the kit and a temporary garage and spray kit for the front of the house, but that will only save me about £500 and I have no idea what I'm doing with paint so I think doing the prep will be best. Then I'll take it to the paint man with the windows out.

As an aside I think this is going to be easier than my metal garage door which took me 4 weekend to do because it had about 5mm of different paint put on it over the 20-30 years. I took this right back to the galvanised finish did two primer coats and two top coats, looks great now but I should have just bought a new door.

 

[trax]

The problem I have is the current paint job is reacting with the layer/s underneath the top coat. I was going to take it back to ally and then etch prime it, then primer and top coat.

I have found someone to do the spraying now at a reasonable cost, when I said I'd take all the paint off the price halved, so its now £1,500 for the job and not the £3k I was getting quoted from most place.

The other option would be for me to get the kit and a temporary garage and spray kit for the front of the house, but that will only save me about £500 and I have no idea what I'm doing with paint so I think doing the prep will be best. Then I'll take it to the paint man with the windows out.

As an aside I think this is going to be easier than my metal garage door which took me 4 weekend to do because it had about 5mm of different paint put on it over the 20-30 years. I took this right back to the galvanised finish did two primer coats and two top coats, looks great now but I should have just bought a new door.

find out what he is spraying it with. ie 2k.

you don't really want to be doing 2k yourself without an air fed mask.