best way to strip paint from frame

[hoobness]

Me again!

As many of you know, I'm refinishing my jeep.

What began as simple rusted floor repair soon turned into a new tub and then a new chassis. Anyway, I'm at the point where I want to apply por15 to my chassis. I need to get all the existing paint off the chassis where the por15 is to be applied. I've been using a wire wheel on a pnuematic grinder which is taking forever. Is there a better wire wheel or method to doing this? I do NOT want to sandblast... or use chemicals. Im on a septic and a well.

Thanks,
Hoobs

 

[LVRockCrawler]

Nightmare Soccer Mom!

had a friend back in florida that had a bit for a drill or air die grinder that looks like my wife's hairbrush (bunch of wires on a drum that pivot) - there are also some really good chemical strippers on the market if you look/ask around...

 

[88Wrangles]

A regular "Dual-Action Sander" is what I would use, same as if you were sanding a car body for painting/repair.

Besides that, you could take it to have it dipped in acid, but that costs a little sometimes.

 

[Craig]

I don't know if these are available to rent or where you'd even rent one from but at work we use a dry ice machine that works the same as sandblasting and leaves nothing behind. The machine takes large blocks of dry ice which gets ground and shot out the same as a sandblasting machine. I used it on the underside of my jeep before undercoating it...works great. It will strip paint and not damage, scratch or dent the metal at all. Like I said, I don't know if these are available anywhere to rent but if you can find one, it'll do the job in no time at all.

 

[jps4jeep]

RE: Dumb Gangstas

I use a simple grinder with a feathered polish wheel, will remove all the paint and rust, but little to no metal.

also sandblasting or media blasting, about $100-$300 depends on who you know.

 

[Ritt]

OK, now if you want to do it the easy way, go to Home Depot and pickup a gallon of good paint stripper, paint it on and let it work. Also, www.eastwoodco.com has excellent stripper just for auto paint. It will take it right down to bare metal. Stay away from sand blasters, it's a huge mess and gets into places you won't even find. The home type are very slow.

I'm doing my Willys frame right now. I'm also stripping the engine while I'm at it. Eastwood also has all of the prep pre washing stuff so you don't get oil or grease trapped under the paint. Might as well do it right the first time. I'm using their Rust Encapsulator. It's supposed to be better than Por15.

The best way is to bring it to a shop that can "media" blast it but it expensive. It cost me $96.00 just for the Willys hood.

 

[hoobness]

RE: axle replacement

Thanks for the ideas!

I looked into the CO2 blast as well as soda blasting.. way too expensive. Looking for featerd wheels for my grinder, I found Airplane Remover. Stuff is awesome. Within 5 min the paint was blistered, then I power washed it with the deadliest nozzle and kaboom! no paint. Im really glad I didnt get the wheel, Id still be doing it 12 hrs later. Yea its poison, cancerous, and even burns a lil when you get the over spray on you (even lightly) my dumbarse did it in shorts and flip flops... Feels like a rug burn. Anyway it got the paint off and im alive. ( i rinsed my skin asap when it happened and put on more clothes)

Ill be POR 15ing it sunday, later !