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Anyway, now I was left with
the roof panel to address. It's a
good, solid roof panel – often a
rust-trap on Foxes – although
there were little surface rust
spots all over it, as though it had
at some point been parked in a
damp garage with water
dripping onto it (18). The rust
cleaned off with a Clean'n'Strip
disc, no problem, but left behind
some pitting (19)that will need
to be addressed before paint.
The media blasters wouldn't
touch the roof panel. If they
turned the pressure up high
enough that the media didn't
just bounce off, they'd most
likely buckle and stretch the roof
panel until it looked like a
ploughed field. I neededsomething that would take all
the paint off, but that wouldn't
cause heat build-up and distort
the thin metal roof panel. These
Clean'n'Strip-style discs in a
power drill (20)are excellent but
tend to bounce on the springy
roof panel. I used a similar
grinder-mounted disc instead.
Because it cleans a strip only an
inch wide, it was a long, tedious
job and, given the volume of red
dust, I was glad of my cheapo
nuisance dust masks.
I was far from pleased with the
end result (21)so I got the DA out
and gave it a good rub down with
that (22). I still wasn't pleased
with the result (23)but time was
cracking on and I needed to get(^18) the primer on the bare metal.➔
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