It's funny how much help you get on ausmini when you're a girl all the guys rush in to give their 2 cents..

Personally being male, ive only been an observer, rather than a recipient of this phenomenon

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Wire wheel will do a great job..You can use a drill or a grinder with the wheel attched.

This a few picks of my under tray
Before


After wire wheeling.. Rust looks bad but wasn't..I just used rust convertor and she was smick


After Etch Primer and Painting

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Crikey Gaf, you did a good job! Thanks for the pics!

I'll do it this weekend with the wire wheel.. I had to use a wire wheel on the drivers side door cause I found out the hard way that it was majorly bogged. The last owner instead of knocking out the ding he filled it with body filler instead The door was so smooth considering it was caked on!

Not necessarily...

Though being a girl got me two mini's at a bargain price!

Wow gafmo, great job there

Fruity, the wire wheel on the drill trick works well, if you have an angle grinder its much easier/faster. Leave any GOOD paint, but wire off anything a bit dodgy. Use rust converter on light rust and prime

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A friend suggested that I get my shell sandblasted. He said that a whole car inside/out cost about $300. This sounds like good value considering its all over back to metal (save my weekends and back). Has anyone had this done before?

Gafmo thats an awesome finish. Hope that mine looks like that one day!

Thanks for that Jill...You can see more pic's of Marcia's upgarde on the link (photobucket) below...You can also see my bad Head..I'll have to take a photo of my Wire wheel Bowl

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Hey Gafmo, Marcia is the twin Anton told me about! I bought that van he had.

You got Marcia's Twin
I did not get a chance to see her before she left
We must CHat

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how much is sandblasting? say for the whole car?
$300 sounds cheap.. a little too cheap even.. lol nah any help would be great

Are you going to minis on the Murray this weekend Gafmo?

sandblasting a shell will be about $300 - $500

It's not the best idea.......yes you save time in paint stripping, but it will punch holes anywhere the metal is thin.

There was a roundy shell for sale recently that my in laws looked at. It had been sandblasted......and had holes EVERYWHERE!! in places you would never imagine.

fk Gaf, didnt relise the van is so major!, how did you lift it straigh up in the air like that

Anton I was just reading that you stripped your car by hand! I don't think I want to do that. I am looking for a quick 'lazy' alternative that will strip the car so I am certain it has no tin worm.

Bye the way how nice is that black lab of yours! we have a gold.

Yeah blasting causes holes in thin spots, but then again so would a probe if you had checked there for rust

There are different types of blast medium, from sand to soda to ground nut shells, the softer ones won't harm the metal as near as bad as sand. The biggest thing you want to worry about in blasting is metal deformation on the really large unsuported areas (like the rear quarter panels ) any holes it finds are holes that should be repaired irregaurdless if you manually strip it or it's blasted.

Oh yeah, another big negative with blasting! dist and debris filtering out of the nooks and crannies spoiling paint jobs and making a general nuisance for a long time after the blasting unless the car is meticulously cleaned right after blasting!

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