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Date:         Tue, 1 Jul 2003 08:42:37 -0400
Reply-To:     David Brodbeck <gull@GULL.US>
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From:         David Brodbeck <gull@GULL.US>
Subject:      Re: Subject: Re: Used Van Need help
Comments: To: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <20030630.233125.1444.35.wilden1@juno.com>
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On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Stan Wilder wrote:


> This car was undercoated at the factory with some special German
> rubberized material.


I wonder if this is anything like what my old '75 bus was undercoated
with.  I don't know what that stuff was, but it was rubbery and very, very
tenacious.  After 25 years of Michigan winters the rocker panels were
rotting out but there was almost no underbody rust, and the undercoating
was still all there, even in the fender wells.  I hit some of it with a 3M
paint removal disc once and it just roughed up the surface.  I think it
would resist anything short of a grinding wheel and even then you'd have
to work at it.




David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 Diesel Westfalia
'94 Honda Civic Si
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