Stripping Some Bigger Parts 

Depending  on the size and material the part is made of  I use different processes to remove the original paint and corrosion etc.

Most of the sheet aluminum parts will be stripped  using  paint  stripper or soda blasted.

I use the soda sparingly on hard to reach places after stripping or sanding. It does a great job but it uses a lot of soda and in Canada the soda is expensive  and with the border to the USA closed to entry for Canadians I can't get to my regular source.

I used a paint stripper I bought at AirVenture a number of years ago named Ez Way  paint remover   and it really worked well on the original dope finish. It does not seem as harsh as other systems I have used and it does not have to be neutralized by water. 

EzWay Link 

Ready for a coat of blue the way it was finished at the factory

I thought I would strip the panel layover. This is one I picked up on E Bay a few years ago.  It is stock with no extra holes or modifications. I stripped it with the EZ Way product  It cleaned up nice.

SO MANY PARTS

These are a  few of the parts I have got ready for primer or acid etch and alodine treatment before the epoxy primer.  

Since my last post I have tackled cleaning up a bunch of the small parts using either my bead blast cabinet, soda blast unit or and a combination of lacquer thinner scotch brite and bead blast

If the parts are steel I just clean/strip and wash with RMI pre kleen  solution and spray with the green EP-420 primer  -  if the material is aluminium then I  strip with  one of the above methods then acid etch with Boderite C-1C79  metal prep and the alodine treat with Bonderite M- CR1201  Alodine

The alodine is called a conversion coating and it is corrosion resistant  after the treatment. The combination of acid etch and alodine gives the epoxy primer a surface that the primer will adhere /grip to

First of the aluminium parts alodined.  Usually the colour of the aluminium turns to a gold/brown .   For some reason some turn more gold than others parts- must be the alloy of the aluminum

The next step after metal treatment is the application of the EP-420  primer

I have a lot of the small parts primed and am spraying the colour. Either green or blue paint depending on its location

Using the 50 series 2 part epoxy  green pain