Date:         Mon, 24 Apr 1995 13:04:24 +0100 (BST)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         "M.Grant" <mty016@coventry.ac.uk>
Subject:      Re: stripping the undercarriage

On Sun, 23 Apr 1995, John Anderson wrote:


> >  In a nut shell... powertools! get an electric drill and various size wire 
> > wheels and a wire cup. The wire cups will rip off undercoating very quickly, 
> > 
> If I may suggest, use wire brushes, particularly the cup shaped
> ones on an angle grinder, in general they will work 500% better
> than on a drill, plus you will find hundreds of uses for the angle
> grinder working on VW's.  Buy a good quality 4 or 4.5" model, have
    
  I'll second that. I bought a 4.5" grinder a few years ago and
  its found plenty of uses on the bus (stripping off old underseal, 
  polishing the paintwork if you get one with torque control, and 
  obviously cutting out all the rusty bits), but it goes without saying
  (so I'm going to say it), use *proper* ear protection when using
  a grinder. I didn't most of the time and now have tinitus (permanant
  ringing in my ears) which is bloody annoying. 

  Apart from that grinders are great. Especially when you can send 
  a nice golden stream of sparks across into the neighbours garden :)

  cheers
  Marcus
  '71 bus 

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Marcus Grant
mty016@uk.ac.cov