Grumman Olson aluminum body truck, oppinions please

njcarting1 said:
Dave,

Like Coastal Eddie said if you go with an acid solution start at the bottom and work up. This is very important because the acid will streak if you start from the top. It will surely make a mess and you might have a chore getting those area's corrected. Also you might want to wet the area first with water, just in case your mixture is a little strong.:inspector: :bigups :howdy
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I forgot to mention in the other one that when using HFA or HCA, do not let it linger on a window for lengthy periods of time; especially on a warm day. It will etch the hell out of glass!!

"Very good" point about wetting the surface first, especially aluminum. It's also surprisingly easy to "fix" or even out your mistakes by just redoing an area that you don't like with different dilution, or like Dave said, spray it on a wet surface, and get at your rinse a little bit faster, and maybe more thoroughly from the top down......
 
My test section was way too quick and easy with the Pro Polish and purple foamed wool to mess with any kinds of acids on this job. I do appreciate the replies though, just don't want to complicate something that works so simple is all. I certainly will keep all this in mind when going after the cast parts though. Thanks Steve, Coastal Eddie, Bill and the rest of you for the tips.
 
haven't even started this job yet. It was scheduled to be started on Wednsday of this week but the client had to use the truck all week so I am supposed to go start it on Sunday now. I don't know when it will be available again to finish the job. It is sometimes a headache trying to schedule work vehicles like this. Trust that I'll be posting pics as I make progress on this truck until it is finished.
 
Well the weather man said there was a 30% chance of thunderstorms so I thought I would take my chances. I just about got finished polishing the hood when the rain started. It rained then stopped then rained then stopped Etc. Etc. so I wrapped my stuff up and called it a day. I go back wednsday where I will have all day with it. Here is a pic of the results on the hood.


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I was watching "Two Guys Garage" yesterday and Factory Five was there putting together a Ford type roadster. The car had a few aliminum bulkheads that needed coating of some type to protect against corrosion. A guy from Sharkskin used a coating that Factory Five recommended . Now these guys produce some high end rquipment so I googled the product to further check it out. Looks like members on the Airstream forum were into this for protecting their Rigs as well as members on a few boating forums for use on pontoons.On the demo, the rep used a cotton cloth to evenly spread the product and told a second coat was to follow. On the airstream forum some posters said they stripped the clear coating off first. Now that would seem like a major deal but you mention the truck body is bear.Hope this info is helpful . I plan on trying this on a couple of my projects in the future.
Might go to Two Guys Garage website or Sharkskin for more info.
 
Mr. Clean said:
Call me Carnac the Magnificent when I say...check back Wednesday. :D
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That's too funny:rofl I should be able to get a big chunk of this job knocked out on wednsday. The weather looks great and I will be where the truck will be on the job it's on. So I'll be doing my job while the truck is doing it's job. Confuzed yet? This is a mold mitigation truck and the owner's business is full bore busy right now. Kristine and I will follow the truck to the mitigation site where we will have access to it all day long on Wednsday. The hood did turn out nice today but the rain was messing things up.
 
Well it could be a stretch since there are probably a significant number on the site who will not get the reference, but I knew my buddy JP is old....(I mean... old enough - that will come back to haunt me :rofl) to remember Carnac. :D

Looking forward to reading (and seeing) how this thing turns out. From what I can tell, if you can handle this thing in a single day I'll have to give you :bigups (x2) and throw in a :bow for good measure.
 
I told the owner of the truck it will most likely take me 40 hours to do it the way I would like to. He gets a special rate when I do work for him so he was OK with the quote. In all reallity I believe I will bring the job in under or around 30 with Kristine helping me. What I remember most is Johnnie does Ronnie. lol:bigups
 
Well my camera decided to act up today, the LCD screen seems to be toast. I heard it making the usual sounds so I just aimed and took the shots using the force and is seems that the force is with me because they didn't turn out too bad.

Kristine and I worked an 8 hour day with a 1 hour lunch so a combined total of about 12 hours actually working on the truck and we got the lower half of 1 side done. I live real close to this Truck so I will be putting hours on it piecemeal until finished.

Here's the pics of today's progress. Kristine agreed to get into one of the pics.:bigups

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Really taking shape :bigups As has already been mentioned, by the time you're finished it is going to be so shiny as to be a roady hazard. :D

And Kristine, whadya say, gonna make back for subsequent rounds? :D
 
Dave panels are looking good. your arms must be shot? It now begs for something to be done to the wheels and tires.
 
04Si said:
Dave panels are looking good. your arms must be shot? It now begs for something to be done to the wheels and tires.
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The owner of the truck ordered some of those nice stainless steel wheel covers. We will clean up and possibly shoot the wells and rims with rustolium black before installing them. The side windows are getting tinted and he says he is even considering some dingle balls to hang atop the windows inside.:rofl

The owner said then he wants to get a kicking stereo and drive down the road cranking "LowRider" by war.:yay
 
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