Paint stripping and rust removal

 

 

Watch this video, these wheel rims have been in this solution for about 3 weeks.

I found this method of paint and rust stripping , its cheap but it takes a few weeks and is a bit messy, so wear some gloves. I start with a large container and fill it with a mixture of  1 part molasses and 8  parts of water. Then place the metal parts into the mixture for about 4 weeks, keep it covered as it smells and you probably want it out the back somewhere, what you'll find is the paint comes off rather easily by spraying with a hose and most of the rust will have fallen off. you may have to scrub a bit with some stainless steel wool to loosen some of the bits that have remained. Caution do not put any parts that are not steel like alloy.

The metal will be bare and will corrode very quickly so treat it with metal ready and dry and paint as soon as you can.

 

I still use paint stripper on really thick paint because I don't really want to wait too long to get my guards sorted. there was about 4 coats of paint on these guards see the layers below.

                                                                     Bare metal at last. 

The underneath has only the original paint so I'll let the molasses strip that.

Doors had the same thing heaps of paint and it was crazzing and cracking on the top surfaces.

Bad rust repair which I had to cut out and repair properly.

Just a bit tidier and at least it shouldn't rust out as before

Some more repairs needed here but I'll do these after the rust has been treated.

Note the original part numbers and build date info on the rear of the front panel.