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so every mornink before work, take out the pieces from the acid bath and hose the loose rust off of them, maybe scrub them with a steel brush by hand in the trouble areas, than flip em upside down and soak the other side of the tall pieces, rinse, lather, repeat
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tired of wire wheelin I decided to put on my big boy pants and get one of these media blaster buckets from Harbor Freight
this is the biggest one they got holds 110 pounds of media with the 20% off coupon it was just north of $100 bucks |
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so naturally to try it out we (my Mopar buddy The Seth and I, aka the Royal We) got sum Walnut media, ie the cheapest stuff like $25 bones fer 25 lbs
FIRST MISTAKE Trying to blast walnut shell through that gizmo is like trying to play tennis with a Basketball when they say FINE on the box, thats relative, as there is probably, Ultra Fine, or Super Fine, or maybe even Ultra Super Fine, ha ha, anywho it was 24 grit, way too big it did not work even after buying bigger ceramic nozzles |
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so we hopped in the Six' Four and headed back to da Media Store
this time dropped $30 on 25 lbs of glass bead 80 grit, pronounced "legit" |
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and then we were cooking with Propane!
pics a bit dark as we were in The Barn, I was borrowing The Seth air compressor as I am currently in between comressors, ie I aint got one couple observations: a water trap device in the air compressor line is a MUST, moist air is the enemy of the master blaster media blasting leaves a different surface on the metal than a wire wheel, you would think a wire wheel is abrasive but media (and I know it depends on what type, but speaking strictly of glass bead) leaves a rough metal surface, a wire wheel does not, or not as much at all decided to blast the core support as it has many twists and turns and zigs and zagz in it making it hard to navigate a wire wheel through it all |
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~ P A R T S ~
and here's how The Greg cleans the 5/16-18 x 7/8 Hex Head body bolts he doesn't, got a box of 50 for $18 bucks, clean, new and not rusty |
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and the second tailpipe decided to show up
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decided these parts are as clean as they are going to get, and I had to start shooting primer today or I would go crazy
even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes, check out this deal on my favorite Rusty Metal Primer at AutoZone, normally $6.50 a can, today buy two and get em for $5 bucks each, I love how well this spray covers so I decided to stock up |
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Deals like that make me walk back up front for a basket.
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so first up was the upper grill panel I want to show you the phases I went through in order to get it ready for primer / paint
now I aint saying I'm and expert an this is how you do it, I just want to share what happened with you Pic 1 - original part simply removed off the truck Pic 2 - soaked in acid overnight (some lose paint, some rust came off) Pic 3 - giving the acid a hand by wire wheeling the rust and paint off (though the part looks shinny there is still rust in the impossible to reach areas and in the pitted metal) so back to the acid bath it went Pic 4 - this is the interesting part, I think some call this phenomenon pickeling, the left side of the panel was soaked in acid overnight and after washing off the acid with water it turns that yellowish haze and starts to surface rust (the right side was not dipped in acid) Pic 5 - after the entire piece was soaked in acid and washed off with a garden hose and left to air dry, this is about 2 hours later, looks like a step backwards, but this is all just surface rust and comes off easily with a wire wheel ... continued in next post ... |
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continuing on...
Pic 6 - after wire wheeling the surface rust off Pic 7 - primered (sorry I didn't take a better pic yet when it dried cause it got dark) so again, there may be a better way to do it, but this is how I did it, and yest it was a massive amount of work, but you just have to press on |
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followed the same process for the lower panel, this time I will show you the backside of it, as it was all covered in rust, so here is the original piece, then pickled half, then all cleaned up
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the headlight buckets were already black, but rusty, so I stripped them down to bare metal, than primered them than shot them with Semi Flat black then clear coated them with Matt Clear - they should give the entire gitty up nice depth, ha ha
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decided to black out the parking light housings as well
oh gotta love the little things, and who will even notice these, ha ha |
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well so at this point I wanted to say we've blacked out or painted everything that was going to be black on this core support, and then I realized I forgot to paint the hood latch mechanism, which I want to be black to add some contrast to all that soon to be greenery
dope, I just realized it's hidden under the upper core support panel anyways, dang |
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... but I pressed on, remember the fender brackets, well they needed some love too
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yes these next few posts are dreadfully boring, but if I had to suffer through cleaning and painting these, you will have to suffer through scrolling past them, lol
I call these the inside grille brackets |
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well if there's inside grille brackets there's gotta be outside grille brackets, yup sure are, zzz... zzz... zzz
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swung by Jerry's paint shop and got 5 cans of paint matched to my factory code for the core support
check out their wonderful fasteners selection, I love this type of display, it's the actual fasteners you will be getting, not some black and white photo or outline in a book, (I'm looking at you NAPA) too bad they still didn't have the silly white plastic slip in nylon nuts for the grille |
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Man, UNBELIEVABLE, the forecast for the next two days (Friday and Saturday) is Rain!!! They must have known the Greg is ready to paint some stuff. ~ Never Fails ~ |
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chocolate donuts showed up today fer da core support, they don't look like the stock ones, hmm, must be more better |
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