Chris Hammond · Chris Hammond
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Back on the wagon
Discover the progress on the Datsun restoration project, including cleaning suspension pieces, removing the rear hatch, and experimenting with paint stripper. Stay tuned for more updates!
So I finally got some more time on the Datsun over the past few days. Friday I went down to my boss’ house and used his bead blaster to clean up some of the suspension pieces (photos of those later this week).
Today I needed to relax a bit (for the reason read this blog post) so I went into the garage and decided to pull the rear hatch off the car. I’m going to try to get rid of all the extra parts I have in the next week or two, and a hatch is one of the extras so I wanted to get the one off the car. That process went pretty quickly, and here are the results:
The blue one being the one I will be getting rid of, and the brown one being the one I want to put on the car.
After that I started playing around with some paint stripper.Here’s the result of that.
I don’t think I want to buy enough stripper to spray down the whole car! That’ll be a lot of chemicals, though it does end up cleaner than if I went to completely sand the whole car down.
More work later this week.
