Sanding.....sanding.....sanding. Jeeze Louise, I’m sick of sanding. I’ve been trying to get my frame ready to paint.
The front half of the frame went pretty well, but the back half has so many tabs and triangular gussets and hard to get to corners, that sanding is difficult at best, and my progress has been really slow. So yesterday I brushed the back half of the frame with my low odor citrus stripper
I let that sit overnight and today I scrubbed it off and.....not much luck. It hardly put a dent in it.
So I hit it yet again with a different brand of low odor stripper and let it sit.
Again, it didn’t do much. It did however soften the paint up enough that I went at it with wet sand paper and I got a lot of the paint off. As it sits right now, it’s probably 80% of the paint removed. I know I could get better results with a serious stripper, but I have to be extremely careful with my asthma. Media blasting would have also been nice.
Even better would’ve been just dropping this thing off with the powder coating shop.
I’m too far into this process to change course now. I’m close to having it ready, but man! I’m ready to be done with this part.
My new fork seals should be here Friday, so I can also get those finished.
The front half of the frame went pretty well, but the back half has so many tabs and triangular gussets and hard to get to corners, that sanding is difficult at best, and my progress has been really slow. So yesterday I brushed the back half of the frame with my low odor citrus stripper
I let that sit overnight and today I scrubbed it off and.....not much luck. It hardly put a dent in it.
So I hit it yet again with a different brand of low odor stripper and let it sit.
Again, it didn’t do much. It did however soften the paint up enough that I went at it with wet sand paper and I got a lot of the paint off. As it sits right now, it’s probably 80% of the paint removed. I know I could get better results with a serious stripper, but I have to be extremely careful with my asthma. Media blasting would have also been nice.
Even better would’ve been just dropping this thing off with the powder coating shop.
I’m too far into this process to change course now. I’m close to having it ready, but man! I’m ready to be done with this part.
My new fork seals should be here Friday, so I can also get those finished.