<VV> Undercoat Removal Tips

[Brent Fullard]

Good advice Ulli. I first learned about dry-ice blasting in the German 
publication Mercedes-Benz Classic. It's a most impressive way to revive 
and clean old parts. Works equally well on rubber hoses, gaskets etc. as
 it does on metal. It also preserves much of the original finish on the 
parts it comes in contact with, like the various metal finishes on 
fasteners. Unfortunately I believe this technique is only in wide spread
 use in Europe and hasn't made it to North America in a big way, but is 
certainly worth investigating.

--- On Sat, 10/29/11, Ulli Dittmar <info at california-camping.de> wrote:

From: Ulli Dittmar <info at california-camping.de>
Subject: Re: <VV> Undercoat Removal Tips
To: "Rick Norris" <ricknorris at suddenlink.net>
Cc: virtualvairs at corvair.org, corvairgrimm at gmail.com, "Paul Chapman" <corvairjunkie at hotmail.com>
Date: Saturday, October 29, 2011, 6:33 AM

Hi Ray,

I restored many cars and had a lot work with sanding, grinding and manual removing the undercoating.
The last car I did was dry ice blasted. Fantastic, no undercoating, no grease no oil left - the best is that non of the   original metal will be taken off, even the original paint will not be effected by the ice - is there is any corrosion you can take care of any single point (cutting, sand balsting etc.) but the rest will stay original. 

Ulli