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Originally Posted by Dingfodgy
I've used flap discs, wire wheels, stripper, sandblasting, etc. Soda blasting would most likely be the quickest and most trouble-free means of stipping the paint off of a vehicle....as long as you wash the CaCO2 residue off the bare steel with some good metal wash. But being as I am a poor white boy from the ghetto....I go to my local ACE and for 7 bucks, pick up a 20/pk of 60 grit PSA discs and get after it with my DA. Takes a little time and makes a bloody mess in the garage, but is effective and cheap for the majority of what needs stripped. For the crevices and otherwise inaccessible areas- I either use a knotted wire wheel on my grinder of do a little spot-blasting with a portable sand blast rig I have.
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I agree a DA is a good tool to use but this poor boy can't afford the air compressor to keep up with my DA. Before I grabbed a 3M clean and strip disk I was running 5 minutes and waiting 10-15 for the air compressor to catch up. Plus the DA spits out oil and water on to the body part you are working on so you have to deal with that too.
One note on the 3M product...
One time I had two doors and a fender on the saw horses for paint stripping. I had a couple of the 3M disks and went at it. I ended up getting my grinder too hot and melting one of the 110v wires. I repaired the wire and was quickly back in business but I did take a break every once in a while after that to let the tool cool down.
Another neat thing about the 3M system, you can get flap wheels and other attachments for your grinder when you buy the $5 adapter piece. Now I keep one grinder with a cut-off wheel and the other one with the 3M adapter installed. You can get 110v grinders for $15-$20. I wear hearing protection with the cheapies but it sure is nice to have two when you have a big job to do.