After buying an unfinished project the time has come to clean up the chassis and give it a make over (it needs it).
the problem is there is alot of paint to remove and alot of nooks and crannies to get into.
is there an easier way than using a wire brush and grinder?
cheers
Ian

Check out yellow pages for a shot blaster near u, well worth getting it done.
Shug.

Thanks Shug
i'll give it a go
any idea of how much it costs
cheers
Ian

See if you can find a place that will give it a coat of etch primer as soon as it's been bead-blasted - otherwise it'll start to rust while you watch!
Costs a bit more, but worth it.
David

An afterthought... if it's too expensive, or too inconvenient (you have to ship the chassis somewhere) then there's always "Plan B". In other words, "The Tool", a.k.a. a wire cup brush in an angle grinder.
Very hard work, and you'll need a dust mask, gloves, ear defenders and sympathetic neighbours. Cheap, though!
Has one great advantage - you'll be looking closely at every weld on the chassis as you work your way round - A Good Thing on a strange chassis.
rgds,

David

[Edited on 3/1/05 by David Jenkins]

an obvious answer is a gallon tin of nitromors at about 20 quid.

however, that will only remove paint and not rust.

I recently had a bike frame blasted and powdercoated and it came back like new. cost 70 quid for a bike - likely more for a car chassis!

you will obviously need to find someone that can take summat that big, but in the case of the bike there were loads of places that were supplying blasting and coating as a combined service.

atb

steve

[Edited on 3/1/05 by stephen_gusterson]

I would second the blasting and powder coating approach as I've done it plenty of times myself and have always been happy with the result (except one job came back the wrong colour).
You'd have to be 100% sure you didn't want to make any alterations to the chassis after the coating is applied, as it's a bugg@r of a job to weld through and then match with paint.

thanks for the advice guys. i'll start looking into how much it will cost to have the chassis sandblasted. hopefully it will look all shiny and new when its done
cheers
ian

It'll look all dull and grey when it's been blasted. It's the ideal finish for priming though.