You can soda blast or glass bead blast which doesn’t leave as rough a finish as straight sand media blasting. You can also use a chemical paint stripper but it’s a little messy. On my current Fastwin restoration, I used Citristrip stripper – it worked real good on stripping the color coat but had a tougher time removing the original zinc chromate primer. I finished up removing the primer by dosing it one more time with the stripper and rubbing with steel wool – came out nice.
Bob
1937 Champion D2C Deluxe Lite Twin
1954 Johnson CD-11
1955 Johnson QD-16
1957 Evinrude Fastwin 18
1957 Evinrude 3022
1958 Johnson QD-19
1958 Johnson FD-12
1959 Johnson QD-20
1982 Evinrude 25hp
“Every 20 minute job is only a broken bolt away from a 3-day project.”
"Every time you remove a broken or seized bolt an angel gets his wings."
