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Ojc
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8th Dec 06 at 09:05   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
..smooth something down inside my engine bay so I can spray it afterwards what should I use to smooth it down?
Ojc
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8th Dec 06 at 09:06   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Sorry how vague can you be

I want to smooth metal down, thanks.
AK
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8th Dec 06 at 09:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
flappy grinding wheel, sandpaper, file

depends what your smoothing? a weld? a scratch?
Ojc
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8th Dec 06 at 09:09   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Just inside chassis legs, pretty much the whole engine bay, removing old paint putting new on.
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8th Dec 06 at 09:13   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
flappying ginding wheel or a wire brush drill attachement.

Prob less damage to be done with the wire brush attachments, and easier to get into noocks and cranies
Ojc
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8th Dec 06 at 09:17   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by AK
flappying ginding wheel or a wire brush drill attachement.

Prob less damage to be done with the wire brush attachments, and easier to get into noocks and cranies


See I knew it would be worth asking before I started, was going to use a grinding wheel but thought it would be a bit drastic.

Thank you Adam
Marc
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8th Dec 06 at 09:19   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I'd go for a flapper disc as you'll be less likely to gouge.
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8th Dec 06 at 09:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
a flapper disc will gouge/grind more than a wire brush!
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8th Dec 06 at 09:30   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I used a wire brush attachment to get the paint off alloys etc.
Ojc
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8th Dec 06 at 09:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Yeah thats perfect for what I want to do, I don't want to go deep just remove paint and smooth something out.
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8th Dec 06 at 09:36   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by AK
a flapper disc will gouge/grind more than a wire brush!

I used them when I was a fabricator and never gouged in to the steel, as long as you hold them flat on to the material what you take off is dependant on how hard you press.
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8th Dec 06 at 09:37   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
smoothing is best done with flapper wheel, but just watch you dont cut into shit thin nova metal. Why on earth are you smoothing and bare metaling your chassis legs?
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8th Dec 06 at 09:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I'm not smoothing them just removing old paint, I'm a bufty wait and see.
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8th Dec 06 at 09:43   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
argghhh... make up your mind

one minute smooting, next removing paint!

Removing Paint - Wire Brush
Smoothing - Flapper Disc
Ojc
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8th Dec 06 at 09:51   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Removing paint and smoothing some seam sealer down, thats what I'm doing and this can be down with a wire brush attachment.

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