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    12/28/2020 7:05 AM  #1

    RTM
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    Mustang progress and ordered MS parts

    Holiday season had kept me busy as did work.  This busy schedule has kept me from working on my project which I was hoping to have already been started on the body work.  Yesterday I made some good progress and it looks like the car will get dustless blasted this coming Friday or Saturday.

    Last week I was able to build four standing legs with 10 inch wheels on them.  I mounted one on each end of the frame connectors I made which I had installed two 1/2 inserts in each corner of the frame connectors.  Not something I would care to load on a trailer and tow it but it will work well enough to roll it out of the garage to get it blasted and rolled back into the garage.

    I also just placed my order for the cobra brake brackets for the front and rear and the cable conversion.  I was going to make my own cable conversion like I had done on my old car but I just don't feel like spending the time to do it again.

    Next month I hope to order the fiberglass hood, deck lid and front valance.

     

    12/28/2020 8:25 AM  #2

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    Re: Mustang progress and ordered MS parts

    Just a comment on the dustless blasting. Make sure they know what they are doing and you know what your getting. I had a Falcon done that way a few years back and the water is great for keeping the heat down, but they have to be carful with the pressure or they will still warp the metal. I have yet to figure out what the best way is too strip a car. You will end up with wet sand stuck everywhere, I drilled holes and blew wet sand out of my rockers for weeks.

    Its labor intensive and time consuming, but I think chemical stripper and a scraper is the best to not cause issues later on outside of body panels. I wouldn't chemically dip anything, you can never protect all the seams once its been dipped. Dry blasting is not bad on the underside and places where heat isn't a concern.

    Just make sure you and the person doing the work are on the same page.

     

    12/28/2020 8:43 AM  #3

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    Re: Mustang progress and ordered MS parts

    My father in law has had two vehicles stripped with plastic media.  He's been very happy with the results on both.  If I had to strip an entire car I think this is how I wold proceed.  Chemical stripper unfortunately isn't what it once was.  They removed the methylene chloride from commonly available stripper some years back.  The new stuff just doesn't cut the way the old stuff did; it mostly turns it into a gooey mess layer by layer.  I stripped an old interior door for a customer last year and it took days to get the multiple layers of paint off.  The old stuff would have lifted almost all of it in one application.  Possibly someone with the right licensing can still buy effective stripper, but I think the days of stripping a car in your driveway are pretty much over unless you're really into masochism. 

     

    12/28/2020 10:28 AM  #4

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    Re: Mustang progress and ordered MS parts

    The only good thing I have going for me is most of the car is new metal from the floor back.  The only areas that need blasted are the inner fenders, core support is new and right front apron is new, firewall needs blasted, roof, door jambs, tail light panel  and the DSE mini tubs which I should have sprayed after I installed them but I didn't so they need a little clean up.  I will also have one door and both fenders blasted but they are off of the car.  I plan on covering up any holes that lead to the inside of the frame rails.  I also held off welding in the convertible seat pan just so sand doesn't get inside the seat pan and I can get it all out.  The quarter panels will not be blasted.  The fenders are beat up and a few patches in them so they will need work no matter what happens to them.  The guy blasting them says hes been doing this for years and he has a pretty good picture selection of his work so I feel good about using him to blast the car.  It will be done in my driveway and he performs all the clean up but I suspect I will have to clean up something.  I will also have the 9 inch housing blasted too.

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    12/28/2020 10:34 AM  #5

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    Re: Mustang progress and ordered MS parts

    Well I won't be getting one of the MS items I ordered.  Sadly it said the item was in stock but I guess there is a two month wait.  My guess is this will be much longer than two months.  I hope not!

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    12/28/2020 11:29 AM  #6

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    Re: Mustang progress and ordered MS parts

    Yep!!! (I don't wanna be a "me-too-piler-0n-er(is that a word?! )
    butt.....I had a virgin 65 Mustang hood ruined by a clown with a dustless blaster. TOO much pressure was the issue. Just keep an eye on the operator maybe get him to waranty his work...it might make him be extra careful.
    Whine-knott take some pictures of the work. Would be very interesting to see!!
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    12/28/2020 12:33 PM  #7

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    Re: Mustang progress and ordered MS parts

    Good news MS did have all the parts in stock.  😁

    I’ll take plenty of pictures of that part of the process.   Kind of excited to get this she’ll in epoxy primer.

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