Joe Handley Posted March 6, 2022 Author Share Posted March 6, 2022 Here’s the pic of how it looked when I found it this morning! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Handley Posted March 6, 2022 Author Share Posted March 6, 2022 (edited) Got the Easy-Off and dirt off the car and got a different tub as well as a small bottle of HyVee brand concentrated bleach, it’s now sitting outside on the same garbage can soaking……..should be interesting to see if it works. Edited March 6, 2022 by Joe Handley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 Glad you found it Joe, I hope the bleach works for you.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Handley Posted March 7, 2022 Author Share Posted March 7, 2022 9 hours ago, slusher said: Glad you found it Joe, I hope the bleach works for you.. Thanks Carl, I am happy I found it too, though I'm not holding my breath on the bleach. Right now I left it outside to soak all night (during a snow storm no less) and will check on it during my lunch break today, see if anything at all has happened. I'm thinking I may need to just sand all that chrome off.....not looking forward to that, TBH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Handley Posted March 8, 2022 Author Share Posted March 8, 2022 Here’s how it looked at lunch , just turned the bleach milky🤦🏻 and yes, that is snow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Handley Posted March 8, 2022 Author Share Posted March 8, 2022 Ok, it looked like nothing was happening so I dumped the bleach it was in and rinsed it off last night, then discovered that some portions of the chrome were starting to flake and peel! Stuck it in some more bleach to see if that will finish it off, just going to let it sit for a while and see what happens. I did notice that I managed to crack the buttress on the quarter panel in one spot from the driver side B-Pillar on down and will have to fix that once the chrome is gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Handley Posted March 12, 2022 Author Share Posted March 12, 2022 Well, this one may be a lost cause for this project, got most of the exterior chrome off, but it’s still holding on inside the body and the buttresses are breaking off behind the B-Pillars. Maybe I can save this body by making it a phantom roadster instead?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Handley Posted March 12, 2022 Author Share Posted March 12, 2022 Well, went nuts with the Dremel again…….. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattilacken Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 Blam! So that just happened! 😅 that seems to be a hard one to get off! I use oven cleaner foam from mr muscle and it strips chrome in seconds, might have worked. Love the project btw!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Handley Posted March 14, 2022 Author Share Posted March 14, 2022 3 hours ago, Mattilacken said: Blam! So that just happened! 😅 that seems to be a hard one to get off! I use oven cleaner foam from mr muscle and it strips chrome in seconds, might have worked. Love the project btw!! Yup, Every so often it does!😅 Checked with a couple other guys from my club, they suggested Black Magic/Westley’s Bleche-Wite, so I need to try and score some of that this week to try out now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slotto Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 I've heard that Windex also takes chrome off lickety split. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Handley Posted July 11, 2022 Author Share Posted July 11, 2022 On 6/11/2022 at 2:29 PM, Slotto said: I've heard that Windex also takes chrome off lickety split. I've bought some Blech-Wite, but haven't gotten around to using it yet.................. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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