Okay, so I have had two other recent posts on this topic here and nastyz28.com. I stopped to the place in Columbus here that does it, and talked to them today, toured their facility. He said Jan-March is their slow time, and he can give me an even better deal of their $950-$1500 price on stripping bodies (depends on size, layers of paint, amount of rust, and if the underside is degreased or full of undercoating). So the time would be now if I were to do it locally. They do the acid bath treatment, but said that the acid is fairly mild, and you would have to leave the car in there for something like two weeks for it to really start eating away at the sheetmetal. I mean, think of their di[pping equipment cages/rigs, and tanks, 50 gallon drums of acid... that stuff doesn't really get eaten from the acid solution, so with a short acid bath to get the paint and rust off, I don't think I have a ton to worry about like some guys say. I would feel a little better driving 3 hours to INdianapolis to have Redi-Strip Indy do the alkaline solution to strip the paint and the eletrolytic bath to remove the rust, but that is two days off work that I'd have to miss...

I wanted to see if anyone else had any more opinions on this matter, and also mainly to find out where the heck I can buy some paint sprayer wand attachments / sprayers that will allow me to stick it into areas like the floor structural supports, subframe mounting braces, inside door jamb area of quarter, etc... I am not stripping it like this unless I either drive it north to Norwalk 2 hours to have it ecoated, or if I could find some paint sprayer wands that I could reach all the impossible to get to areas with this.

This place dips it in a paint stripping solution, then in a rust stripping solution, then a neutralizer bath, Then they pressure wash the thing with a huge pressure washing rig, particularly all the seams and areas like that, and then they dip it in rust protective coating and let it dry. They also can bake small bodies to get the paint off, which he says works much better if the body will fit in his computer controlled oven...

Still weighing these thoughts. I could get it done any time of the year in Indy with the more friendly stripping process for the same money, but figure in at least $300 extra for time to take off work and gas money...


HELP!!!! I need to know where to get these kind of sprayers, and need more opinions!

The guy here even says if I wnat to get a bunch of small stuff stripped, he can do it for a killer deal cus he'll have thje tank full of my parts already, so whats a few more small parts in the same bath to him? Seems like the time to do it would be now... and I think I could have it down to a bare shell in a weekend, and a thousand digital pictures and little baggies labeled with part locations later...