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Are you tired of spending your evenings and weekends for months sanding the paint off your car? Have it plastic media blasted to remove that old paint in just a day or two.
What is plastic media blasting –PMB ?
Plastic media blasting is a process used to for the rapid removal of coatings on materials. The method does not involve toxic chemical strippers, burn off systems, sandblasting, hand or mechanical abrasion methods. In the case of automobiles paint is removed. The process is similar to sand blasting and uses the same type of equipment but instead of sand plastic bits with the texture of large corn meal is used to chip away the paint. Since plastic is a non-toxic compound, the process is eco-friendly.
Plastic media blasting uses high volume air and low pressure to propel the plastic into the paint which results in the paint being chipped away. The process does not create the heat that is generated by normal sand blasting and is therefore safe to use on thin metal. Sand blasting thin metal could cause warping of metal if not done very very carefully. The metal surface when sand blasted is pitted and feels like sandpaper. When plastic media is used to remove the paint the metal surface under the paint is virtually unaffected by the plastic media process. However, rust is not removed by plastic. Loose rust is blown away but the basic rust problem is still there to be dealt with by other procedures.
PMB –plastic media blasting—is less aggressive than sand so it can be used on a wide variety of projects with less concern for damaging results. Fiberglass i.e. Corvettes and boats can have the paint removed. Since the surface (gel-coat) under the paint is relative soft compared to metal, after Paint removal the surface is more like the surface of an orange. Body filler can be removed or left in place depending on the thickness and/or customers’ desires.
Turn around time for the typical car/truck is 1-2 days depending on amount of work that needs to be done. Piece work can be done while you wait. All work is done by appointment.
We will come to local car club meetings to explain the process if there is an interest. We also welcome clubs/individuals to schedule an on site visit for a better understanding of Plastic Media Blasting and the service we can provide.
Our shop is located 8 miles outside Sanger, Texas. We’re about 30 minutes north of Denton, Texas and 1 hour from DFW.
The shop phone is 940-458-3326 and cell is 940-367-0098. Call for information and general pricing.
We’re available weekends and evenings if it is more convenient for costumers work schedules.
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sold old still run vintage carsI have an 1930 Durant 6-14 Coupe and it need new wooden support beams. Anyone know where i can get them?
For the Durant you may have to make them yourself.
try this site I’ve found it to be a great source for old cars
William Smith has had a tremendous influence on the car hobby in a multitude of areas. Under his leadership, the Antique Automobile Club of America has become the largest collector car club in the world, with more than 60,000 members, and 400 regional clubs worldwide! Join us as Meguiar’s honors Bill Smith as “Person of the Year” in the car hobby. His achievements as Director of the Antique Automobile Club of America Museum have most definitely certified him as CAR CRAZY!! Episode 10014
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i know how to well and did it as a hobby when i was a kid.
Can i make a good lving off of restoring old muscle cars and selling them to wealthy people?
what cars would command high money?
Yes, you can/could.
They will ALL command high money but the years people want most will command the most, but I don’t think that is the concern, necessarily
Anything that is nostalgic, which is a BIG field. Anything 50s 60s, before and after that, including muscle cars to customs–mild to wild, ratrods, nice big V-8s in T roadsters.
Man the list goes on and on!!
Look on the internet google.com for one. Lots of junkers that are just sitting around all over the nation, though I would think locally would be the way to go for buying what you need.
The internet is/has been categorized as well. ‘Junker muscle cars’ and whatever other category you can think to look for.
I saw one site a long time ago, ‘junkers in barns’. That included muscle cars and old Cadillac ‘verts as well as many others.
We have a shop here in town that does just what you’re referring to and in the back of the shop is another guy, they split the rent, that does upholstery and ‘vert tops and weather seal.
Your business will just naturally attract those with money, but you’ll also be attracting the GEARHEADS and TRANNYBUSTERS as well, so you BETTER know you’re stuff, if you come off like a dummy, you probably won’t make the sale!!
Walk the walk AND talk the talk!!
Or a good site to get advice, quotes, reccomendations ect on Antique cars? Especially if the focus was on International Scouts. Thnks!
Try this site they have alot of scouts, just follow this link and good luck…..
http://www.cardomain.com/Make/International
In West Yellowstone Montana.
Over 150 cars!!!
MUSIC was muted so I picked a random song from youtube… its pretty terrible and annoying to have this happen.. but it took forever to upload and im not gonna do it again!!!
Dont judge me by the music!!!
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I have access to several antique vehicles that I’m interested in leasing to music video and movie production companies. I just have no resource material to find out how. Can someone assist me?
Contact Dave Winair, at Paramount Transportation Services, thats what they do. www.paramount-transportation.com
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I know you can use carfax and such to find information about your car but how do I do this for cars made before 1981? I have a 1947 Ford and want to use the serial to find out what the original color was, where it was sold and made and the likes. Any help would be greately appriciated.
Seems that you already know about the numbers meaning different things so all you need to do is go to the library and find a book on 47 fords or find a place that sells restoration parts for your car and they will probably have a book on the numbers that you want to look up.