Re: Removing undercoating?

[Ron Pieper <rapieper@yahoo.com>]

Final cleanup with a copper kitchen scrub pad and some
lacquer thinner or hopefully some other solvent a bit
less nasty...and big ol' heavy rubber gloves...of
course it's always easier to turn the car on it's side
first!

Ron

--- Steve Roth <sroth@alscarchitects.com> wrote:
> Daun,
> I removed a ton of ruberized undercoat from the
> underside of my '78
> Scirocco.  I used a 3M Stripping Disc.  You can buy
> them at your local
> hardware store.  They attach to the end of a drill,
> or other spinning
> tool with a chuck.  This is one of the most useful
> abrasives I've come
> across.  It's sort of hard to explain what it looks
> like.  Not
> sandpaper, not a wire wheel, sort of some coarse
> fiberous stuff cemented
> together with some kind of goo.  Very rough.  I
> tried sandblasting, but
> with my small sandblaster, it went slow, and most of
> the sand just
> bounced off the rubber.  Hope this helps.
> Steve Roth
> '78, '80 S
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> I need to remove some of that nasty factory
> undercoating
> from the floorpan of my truck so I can patch a
> couple
> holes.  Does anyone have any suggestions for the
> best way
> to remove this stuff?  Chemicals?  Heat? 
> Combination?
> 
> TIA!
> 
> =====
> Daun Yeagley
> '80 Scirocco S,
> '82 Pickup
> '85 Scirocco 8v
> '88 Scirocco 16v
> '91 Passat
> "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you
> win, you're still a
> rat."
> - Lily Tomlin
> 
> 
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