Thread: My 1955 86" rebuild.

Well after a gruelling day in aged care, I only had approx 1 hour to play with, so I set about removing the alloy panels from the door tops, knock the rivet ends off with a very sharp chisel and punch the heads out, it didn't take long and this was the result
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a quick application on a an area of approx 7" square with paint stripper and it didn't take long to have one side devoid of paint, turn it over to attack the side with 5 layers of paint, this is where I had to call it a day (or rather an hour LOL)
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well that was my hour this afternoon, cheers Dennis
ps more of the same tomorrow arvo, hopefully I'm home on time,,.

A day of aged care puts anew shine on stripping paint.... Like meditation ......... I've had days in that Feild that'd take 53 hrs strait stripping to relieve .... Perhaps I need a stripper pole
On a slightly more serious note what's you're strippers name??, I'm up 4 the same job in the near future

The paint stripper is a Bunning's brand "Diggers", it works well, as usual wash panels down throughly after using, I have not in 13 years had any issues with paint peeling etc after using stripper.
A little more done this afternoon, I finished stripping the alloy panel off the door top (RHS) and I also finished sanding the RHS door skin on both sides
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it had a few minor blemishes which were up to 2mm deep, using the flat dolly and soft (wooden) hammer etc I have managed to reduce them to under .5mm, so not much spray putty will be needed, anyway cheers Dennis
ps I always manage to do something to my projects everyday, that way it just seems to flow on easily,,.

Ahhh I read the diggers stripper earlier but thought it was " digger" the member and a noxious back yard brew lmao fool that I am... Thanks mark

The best part of the day was spent removing rivets from the LHS door, some were very stubborn. The layers of paint on panels on this Land Rover is nothing sort of amazing/ridiculous, 2 applications of stripper to get it down to this level, and look how the paint rolls off
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while the paint stripper is doing what it does best, I had made a phone call to a local galvanizer, they advised me that all steel had to be free of paint etc , more work !!, so I made a start on the RHS door frame, the gal under the paint looks great, but I'm still going to have it redone at this stage
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moving right along, I had run out of stripper, that's the first 4 lts, off to the local shop to buy some more and keep going
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after I had removed all the paint from the outside of the door skin, I pressure washed it to neutralise any stripper left over, allow to dry in the sun and 40 minutes later it looked like this (and still does LOL)
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my Metabo orbital sander makes short work of any stubborn paint etc, I still have about 100 disc's left over from my last project 113-372, anyway that was my day, only a short day tomorrow (afternoon shift), but it will be full day on Sunday, cheers Dennis
ps some of the minor blemishes on this panel hopefully will be removed to make a nice smooth panel,,.

Originally Posted by mfc

Ahhh I read the diggers stripper earlier but thought it was " digger" the member and a noxious back yard brew lmao fool that I am... Thanks mark

But if you are after DIGGER STRIPPER Im available for weddings, parties, barmitzvahs etc etc

digger stripper.jpg
1800 HUBBA HUBBA

He did say just a little at a time

This morning I removed the skin from the LHS door frame, what a mess underneath.
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the skin has one small hole approx 2mm in diameter, an awful lot of crud trapped
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The door frame has a section of electrolysis on the gal, which chipped off easily enough
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anyone contemplating a restoration of a Series Land Rover should do this as a matter of course, to prevent further decay, not much else can be done today as I'm off to work in just over 90 minutes anyway back into it tomorrow, cheers Dennis

Thats the problem Aluminum & galv dont mix well.