Air craft stripper. We chemical strip almost all out cars and sandblast in hard to sand areas that are stiff / sturdy like door jams, trunk jams, rockers, etc. We chemical strip for cost and control reason. Media blasting is expensive and very messy. Chemical is a little less money and we can do it in shop and see exactly what comes off. Also, there are some potential adhesion problems from media blasting we do not like to deal with.
On this 68 Camaro restoration in particular, we are chemical stripping only close to the edge and are sanding the paint off to the edge, We will probably leave the glass in that car, it is original and perfect, and do not want to remove the original paint on the window edges, or in the jams. That original paint in those areas is perfect primer for us. That restoration is a true "Less is More" situation, and not our normal coarse of business. So most will never have a chance to use that car as a guideline as I have never seen one so nice.
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Frank Serafine
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