hey to all those holden nuts ,, im busy sanding my car back to paint it and im thinking to sandblast the doors bonnet boot lid and front guards but im not sure if its to aggresive has any one done it, and was it a good time saver and result or will it make me cry the fella i have local says its ok but but he,s maybe just lookin for a job and my money mite make him bias towards doing it.... ...also is there a easy way to clean out the door seal groove,s - chanel..as sand paper is all ive come up with and that gluey stuff is tuff cheers thanks for your forgiveness for my crap spelling n grammer karsten
when they start building them like that again i will buy a new car of them
Hey karsten i got my fb sandblasted and had no troubles.Doesnt seem to move body filler that well but its quik and cheap.Got two cars blasted this week and they were fine aswell.Have heard of some cowboy blasters causing some damage though.
see if you can find any other cars he's done, like captainbill basically said if he knows what he's doing you should be right
i know a guy that sent an EH ute to be done and the guy pretty much wrote it off
ive always had blasting done on my cars and panels never had any dramas yet
i always tell them to go easy on them aswell just to make sure
beats hand rubbing anyday
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thanks fella,s i will give it a go and drum the bloke to use fine beeds im pretty sure it would be better finish than sanding ie.in door cavity and so on so , see how it go,s
when they start building them like that again i will buy a new car of them
just got my bits back and its like going back in time ,so cool it took all paint and filler off and it tells a story of a few minor panel repairs and stuff that was repaired back in antiquity and really sorts out surface rust ,four doors, two guards, bonnet , boot lid, vent intake piece bellow windscreen, and the bit bellow grill between guards compleately stripped and two coats etch primer $500 ,for everyones info that are at this stage and where wondering
when they start building them like that again i will buy a new car of them
Hey karsten just wandering did they blast the tops of your hood and boot.I just got a 59 caddy and an lx torana blasted and although they did a great job they left my roof and the top of the boot and hood.
i got all the removable panels blasted last week.
looks like the mongrel was standing on my perfect bonnet
one of the cross bracing bars was bent and the bonets no longer straight. where are all the good tradesmen
try a couple of strip and clean disks they rip through bog and paint but wont hurt the metal.
ova in bayswater he did a good gob on everything else but it looks like he stood on it.
and if i belt him i'm the one who gets locked up.
where's the justice
yeah captain bill when i spoke to the bloke he said that he would only do the edge of panels and all the tricky bits , jams,window tracks ect, cause he said that if you do the panels they could get to hot and warp the steel and stuff the panel , but he had quoted me a per door price . so i said to him i didnt care about the cost i hate sanding sh#t and could he just wisk over it a bit at a time as not to gain heat and he said that it was no prob if i was happy to pay extra time to do it carefully and he did the hole lot but your bloke is probably aware of this and being carefull which is probably better than buggered pannels, but i could see problems with a cowboy that didnt give a toss, and i was nervous the hole time he had my bits untill i saw them safe n sound, ,,,i did do my roof and back section at home and i found that a 6 inch air orbital took me 3-4 hours to do roof with 5 layers and worked really well also i have a makita elec palm sander that gets in corners better than the round orby i did use 40 ,60,80 and 120 grit progresivly and took it back to steel but im so glad i blasted think it is far more quicker . now i just have pillars and sills left yuk ,,the bloke who did it was iron cross sand blasting at gatton <80ks> which is a long way for you westeners but for any one around bris this bloke is good
when they start building them like that again i will buy a new car of them
When i got my fb done they did both sides of my bonnet and done a great job.Just found it funny that they did my fb with no underbody structure and now they dont even with a bonnet with underbody support.Still well worth doing for 500 bucks when you gotta rub as many cars as i do.
yeah might have been a friday old mate did inside and out of every thing for me and yeah ive got a wb after i do ek and i think i will do the whole car to save time and then ive an eye on a diamond t three ton truck from the 50s but i mite have an eh to do as well oh its hard to concentrate might need a bigger shed , my missus said shes gonna call the council on me if i bring all the sh#t home
when they start building them like that again i will buy a new car of them
Hi Karsten,
t would seem you sure have one very patient and tolerant wife.........
I have three and a half in progress (will never finish any of them) and I'm expecting orders to downsize one day..............
Love the idea of that Diamond "T" - together with early Macks and 190's I think the '50's were a great era.
Hope the EK always takes precedence over the others, Karsten?
yeah rossco the ek is forever and has been with me a long time and yeah i think up till the end of the severntys most things where built well car or truck everything since is a bit to simalar
when they start building them like that again i will buy a new car of them
the fella i have local says its ok but but he,s maybe just lookin for a job and my money mite make him bias towards doing it.... 
...also is there a easy way to clean out the door seal groove,s - chanel..as sand paper is all ive come up with and that gluey stuff is tuff 
cheers thanks for your forgiveness for my crap spelling n grammer karsten
