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Best way to uncover grease paint on early cars !

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svo2scj:
Hi Guys,

Totally new area for me but I know you are the people to ask !!  (really need to hear from those that have don't it sucessfully and without harm to info)

What is the proceedure/products used on 1964 1/2 Radiator support to remove the black paint in hopes of uncovering grease paint marks on build info?

Didn't want to go at it with stripper or thinner (if they need to be diluted or avoided)

Mark
P.S. Will post findings here -just not sure I want to commit to another concours restoration at this point !

Twilight65:
Mark,
I used metal prep to clean the area first so I could kind of see where the numbers/letters were. I held a flash light at an angle as to see them. Then I used paint stripper. I didn't leave it on too long because I didn't want to destroy what I could see below the paint. Then I carefully scrapped it very gently with a putty knife until I could see the markings. I did a small area each time.

Dave

rockhouse66:
The markings on my '66 were visible after media (soda) blasting.

svo2scj:
Thanks All
Jim -good to know that maybe (with instruction to not BLOW everything away) you can still blast.

GOing to use the hand cleaning , stripping in the area first.  (Whole frame might be blasted latter)
Yeah I said frame.

Mark

JKWilson:
Mark, I know you referred to the markings as grease, and these do exist. The ones in grease marker that I have found have generally been on top of the black paint. Any attempt to raise these usually obliterates them. The paint markings under the the black paint are pretty resilient. I recently got to the paint marking on my coupe by stripping. I tried several less intrusive methods with little success. I then used Jasco brand stripper. I left it on until it just began to wrinkle the black paint (less than 5 minutes). I then used a plastic scraper and it revealed all the markings without damaging or destroying any of them. I'll be posting a "details" log for the car soon. I have several more photos to shoot of the little details and original markings I've found throughout the car. The log will include a shot of the markings on the radiator support.

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