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Re: acid dipping

To: Lanier <willjan@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: acid dipping
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:39:17 -0800
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
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Lanier wrote:

> Does anyone have any experience with acid dipping or alkaline dipping?
>
DON'T DO IT!!!!!  The acid gets caught in the seams, cracks and crevices 
and will come back to haunt you a year or two later in the form of 
corrosion, if not outright rust.  A nice plastic media blasting will 
cost you about 3-400 bucks or strip it yourself with a good aircraft 
paint stripper.  One of the best concours restorations I have ever seen 
is now rusting away at the seams because of acid dipping.  You invest a 
lot of money and time into one of these even if you don't make it into a 
concours car.
Mike MacLean
60 Sprite
56 BN2






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