Advice on interior and rust

[carguyinok]

Open your phone book and look. If that fails I would look for someone who packs food for shipping. They use dry ice for shipping frozen foods.

[EScanlon]

Look in the Yellow Pages, under ICE. (Seriously)

But on another note:

Guys, I know it's a PITA to chip off the tar paper, but it seems that using Dry Ice, Air Chisels, Heat Guns, Aircraft Paint Stripper, et al, is just making a huge volcano out of a tiny anthill.

Get a fairly stiff 1" or 1-1/2" or even a 3" paint scraper. You can usually find these in the simplest of hardware stores.

Take it home, and put an edge on it with your bench grinder. You're not talking about an edge you can shave with, just enough of an edge that it will cut under the tar paper. Sharpen ONE side of the blade only, leaving the other side flat.

The resulting edge should look something like this when viewed from the side : /_____

Then with the sharpened edge facing up, find an edge of the tar paper, or a crack, or heck, just start in the middle of it, and either with your hand, or with the aid of a lightweight (NOTE: LIGHTWEIGHT) hammer, tap - tap - tap. You'll shove that edge under the tar paper, it will probably POP right off, or if it proves stubborn, TWIST the scraper up and to the side. I'll guarantee that the tar paper will come off. That's how I've done the Z's I've worked on.

2¢

[derk]

Thanks for the tips. Tried that a bit...comes off in small pieces with the tap tap tap method. So far the heat gun is winning.

Nothing in my phone book under ICE but I will make some calls.

[beandip]

I have been removing the stuff on my '73 . I am working in a unheated garage , not too cold about 45degs. and using a scraper that I ground from one side like a wood chisel , about an 11/2 wide and just tapping with a small hammer. It came off in chips from stamp size to that of a paper dollar. The rear hatch was clean with out rust at all but the floor on the passanger side will need to be replaced and likely the drivers side as well. This side could be repaired with POR 15 and matting but most likely I will do both sides . The rear hatch I finished today took about 2hrs. at most , by the time all was cleaned an vacumed the foot wells took about 2hrs. each side. If I were to do this again I would go the Ice method if it started to only chip off in small chips . Dry ice is cheep and I think cold is the better way to go. The tranny tunnel , I am only going to go up the side untill I nolonger find rust and then another couple of inches. All bare metal will get POR after sandblasting.

[Bambikiller240]

Hey beandip:

That avatar looks like Jed Clampett's dog. I think I saw that picture in a group that was emailed to me a 'Hillbilly Photo Album".

[bonniec75209]

Those kinds of dogs are very sweet-natured though!!!

[Bambikiller240]

Originally posted by bonniec75209

Those kinds of dogs are very sweet-natured though!!!

Bonnie:

Look carefully at the dogs teeth. They have been altered, possibly in Photoshop or another program.

I wasn't referring to the breed, just how the picture had been altered in the teeth area. Makes the dog look kinda inbred or goofy to me.

Hopefully beandip understood what I was driving at. (?)