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  1. Robo McDuff

    To blast or not .. and then what. Professional advice sought

    I restored way worse when as a student restoring old Volvos and an old Mercedes 508 Postbus made into a camper. The cab structure is a question of taking a high-speed angle grinder with cutting blade, take out the rotten stuff well back into solid steel, then remodel the missing structure...
  2. Robo McDuff

    To blast or not .. and then what. Professional advice sought

    I talked with my garage people who also painted my NSU motor cycle (know them for over 20 years). The guy doing the actual paint work, to my surprise, also said that doing the zinc is a good way of trowing away money. He would go for sand blasting, than primer, filler on top of that, and than...
  3. Robo McDuff

    To blast or not .. and then what. Professional advice sought

    I am waiting for a price quote on "door assembly left" from Reomie. Problem is, then it would be nice/better to do the windows as well etc etc and you end up ordering a whole new cabin before you realize that you don't have the $$ to pay for it. But yes, if the price is acceptable, I will...
  4. Robo McDuff

    To blast or not .. and then what. Professional advice sought

    How does that work? We don't have pressured drinking water but we do have a well and a lot of other water floating around, including our own fish pond and the water standing in the hole around the steam hammer. Maybe we can rig something up. Edit: the video did not show up in your post, but...
  5. Robo McDuff

    To blast or not .. and then what. Professional advice sought

    Thanks for all the quick replies. We did clean with power washer twice, got some loose stuff off, but most of it is rather stubborn. Problem now is we do not have running pressured water at the workshop, so pressure-washing it again is out. Would not work better anyway. The needle scaler...
  6. Robo McDuff

    To blast or not .. and then what. Professional advice sought

    I am now going to restore the 1973 (or 1965) M51A2 and want to paint it back into the original colors. The doors need some welding work and also the front and back parts of the left fender, in the bent area. Also, I threw a bucket of cheap water-based paint on top of everything, including the...
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