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#502996 - 04/17/08 12:04 PM Restore / Protect Inside Car Door
Mr. Solutions Mr. Solutions Member Registered: 12/02/01 Posts: 201 Loc: Airdrie, AB, Canada	Hi List What is the recommended way to restore the INSIDE of your card doors. There are a few access holes in the doors, mainly for servicing of the locks, latches and windows... My initial feeling is to blast them inside, then coat with something. The questions are thus: - best media for inside the door blasting; any negative experiences in doing this - best product to apply once cleaned out properly. A "marine based" paint high in zinc content? An epoxy primer / sealer - and perhaps the most important question, what exactly does one use to do this? A regular spray gun of any kind just won't cut it! Are there specific guns designed for this? If so, recommendations please. Thanks in advance Johan _________________________ Johan de Bruin '51 Buick Model 4369D
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#503005 - 04/17/08 12:25 PM Re: Restore / Protect Inside Car Door [Re: Mr. Solutions]
MrEarl MrEarl Long Time Member Registered: 07/14/03 Posts: 3534 Loc: NE Georgia	Check this out, similar question to yours. peruse through the forum, there's lot more similar discussion Eastwood _________________________ Lamar in Athens, Georgia BCA- 39474, 1959 BDBCA-0021, AACA-228846 1954 BUICK "The Beautiful Buy" 1954 Roadmaster 76R, 2 DR HT - DoraB, (Irene,gone down under) 1954 Roadmaster 72R 4 DR - Buttercup, Dakota, Blue Belle, Virginia, Marietta, "High Society" (thank you Paul Meyer) 1954 Century 66R 2 DR HT- "54Muscle" w/3 speed stick(thank you Jim Schilf & Norm Kortus), Mary Jane Verkauft bis ein, wer 54 Buicks in Deutschland liebt, dankt Freund 1954 Special 41D 4 DR Deluxe Sedan 3 speed- Sugar Magnolia
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#503008 - 04/17/08 12:31 PM Re: Restore / Protect Inside Car Door [Re: Mr. Solutions]
Matt Harwood Matt Harwood Member Registered: 10/09/01 Posts: 1616 Loc: Cleveland, OH	I use Zero Rust and an Eastwood rustproofing gun on exposed metal (shameless shill: If you go to Eastwood to buy one, do me a huge favor and click on the banner on my website before you do--it costs you nothing and I get a kickback to help fund the Buick restoration). For inner areas like doors, I don't worry too much about blasting it clean since it's out of sight. Deal with any surface rust as best as you can, then coat with the Zero Rust, which will stop it forever (especially since we don't really drive these cars in harsh weather). Here's what I did: http://www.harwoodperformance.bizland.com/1941buick/090803.htm http://www.harwoodperformance.bizland.com/1941buick/092303.htm http://www.harwoodperformance.bizland.com/1941buick/092903.htm Edited by Matt Harwood (04/17/08 12:33 PM) Edit Reason: Shameless plug _________________________ Matt Harwood (BCA #38767) 1941 Century Sedanette If you have a 1941-42 Buick with dual carbs, please visit: The Dual-Carb Registry
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#503256 - 04/18/08 10:47 AM Re: Restore / Protect Inside Car Door [Re: Mr. Solutions]
martylum martylum Member Registered: 10/19/07 Posts: 103	On preserving the inside of the doors-I would be reluctant to have anyone sandblast the inside of the door to banish rust-seems like a good way to heat swell the outside panel. An ideal solution if you wish to banish rust would be to send the doors to a metal laundry where they would electrolytically remove the rust. You could then use epoxy or etch primer to recoat the bare metal. Don't see any need for further coating if you do 2 coats of primer unless you are planning to operate in Michigan winters. Next best solution would be to clean the inside very thoroughly and coat with one of those ruststopper coatings. You need a real good cleaning and degrease to insure good bonding of any of these rust stopper chemicals. Martin Lum
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#503493 - 04/19/08 11:47 AM Re: Restore / Protect Inside Car Door [Re: martylum]
Gary_N Gary_N Member Registered: 10/19/04 Posts: 407 Loc: Maryland	Marty: Are there any metal laundry's near you? Thanks. Gary _________________________ BCA #40969 '50 Special - "Yoda" '54 Roadmaster - "Frankie" '64 Electra Coupe - "Arthur" '48 De Soto S11 Coupe - "Bobo" '01 Z06 SCCA - T1 Racecar "Dragonfire" - For Sale ------------------- http://www.wrenchhappy.com
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#505091 - 04/25/08 12:35 PM Re: Restore / Protect Inside Car Door [Re: Gary_N]
martylum martylum Member Registered: 10/19/07 Posts: 103	The nearest to me was 3 hours away several years ago. When i called recently about having 53 Skylark parts stripped I kept getting an answering machine so not sure if sthey are still in business. No other place came up in PA state for this kind of paint and tar stripping and electrolytic derusting. On the third pages of listings for paint stripping, a site came up which emphasized the stripping part but not for cars.more in the X-rated category. I'm still undecided on how to treat these doors. Marty Lum
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#505109 - 04/25/08 02:15 PM Re: Restore / Protect Inside Car Door [Re: martylum]
Matt Harwood Matt Harwood Member Registered: 10/09/01 Posts: 1616 Loc: Cleveland, OH	I'm not a fan of dipping things like doors where there are multiple seams and folds and spot-welds holding the whole thing together. It's really, really hard to get all the solvent out of all those nooks and crannies, and if someone doesn't do a 100% perfect job, it might leach out right after you spend a big pile of money putting paint on it. I'm willing to strip things like this using mechanical means and live with the interior not being 100% clean metal when I start to avoid that possibility, however remote it might be. I have heard of it happening. Stripping like this has a good side: it gets into every single nook and cranny and strips it to bare metal. Stripping like this also has a bad side: it gets into every single nook and cranny and strips it to bare metal. There are always places you can't reach anymore unless you cut the panel open. I'd rather have some kind of ancient sealer/paint/tar in there instead of going naked. Just my inflation-adjusted $0.02. _________________________ Matt Harwood (BCA #38767) 1941 Century Sedanette If you have a 1941-42 Buick with dual carbs, please visit: The Dual-Carb Registry
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