At the end of last month's
instalment, the Project 13/30 Fox
shell was fresh from the media
blaster and completely bare.
Obviously this isn't a good place
to leave it, as the second bare
metal contacts the moisture in
the air, rust can start forming.
Once the shell was bare, Quality
Blasting had wrapped it in
bubble-wrap and put it in the
adjoining unit where they do all
their painting, which also
happens to be bone dry (1).
Immediately afterwards, it was
time to summon Super-Wacky.
Job one was to get the shell
onto its spit, because, even
though Richard had given the car
a good blow-out and vacuum,
there was still plenty of blasting76 ACMhow
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It's time to get a protective coat on the completely
naked Project 13/30.PrimeAdminister
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Words & Photography:Dave SmithTHANKS TO
Quality Blasting(01384 892244,
http://www.qualityblasting.co.uk)
for use of their painting unit, and
'Wacky' Mick Wilkes of Wacky
Racers(01384 571571) for giving
up a Saturday morning to paint my
shell for me, and with his left wrist
in plaster, too! Hero.media hiding in the crevices and
box-sections. Blowing it out with
an air gun (2), then vacuuming it
away(3)is the only way to be
sure, because, otherwise, you just
know that the next time you see it
it'll be stuck to your fresh, wet
paint. We brushed, blew and
vacuumed all the debris, then
rolled the car over on its spit,
watched a fresh fall of blast media
come drifting out of the sills and
seams(4), cleaned it up, rolled it
over again... we repeated this
process for almost two hours, and
still there was dust falling from
the box sections. Still, we were on
the clock – it was Saturday, the
lads at Quality Blasting knocked
off at noon, and there was no time
left for further cleaning.1
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