Re: Removal of Tar Type Undercoating

[Ian Lomax <sfalfisto@domain.elided>]

Kelly McKrystle has an article about this in this
month's Overheard Cams (the ARA magazine) which covers
how he did this on his Berlina race project.

He had some pretty creative solutions, including the
use of dry ice.  I'll leave it to him to elaborate...

Cheers,
Ian Lomax
ARA President
http://www.overheardcams.org

--- George Beston <gbeston@domain.elided> wrote:
> Ron, the undercoating you're intent on removing gets
> quite brittle when 
> cold.
> 
> Park your Duetto outside on a cold day like today
> for a few hours.  
> Then bring it inside, put it up on stands and
> lightly smack the 
> undercoated areas of the floor with a hammer in the
> areas where you 
> want to remove the undercoating.   This does two
> things: it tends to 
> crack the undercoating and also to release it from
> the metal it's 
> sticking to.
> 
> Then tackle it with a hammer and a scraper of some
> sort - I used a dull 
> 1" wood chisel.  The undercoating will come off in
> fairly large pieces. 
>   If this sounds like a lot of work, it is. 
> However, I can guarantee 
> that it's far less work than trying to scrape
> undercoating off when 
> it's warm and relatively soft and sticky.
> 
> Good Luck!
> 
> George
> Spider Jr
> Alfetta
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