[ZeGermanHam]

Originally Posted by 72pontiac

holy Toledo you have that frame looking like chrome. how long did that take? what do you suppose you'll paint that with?

I'm almost embarrassed to admit how long it took me to clean up the frame. I don't keep track of my hours, but knowing my weekly schedule, I can reasonably estimate that it took me about 40 hours of work spread over three and a half weeks. It was a tedious process of degreasing, scraping off all the thick tar-like rustproofing that had been applied (that was a headache), then wire-wheeling, then going over with a stripping disc, then getting into all the small spaces with a Dremel tool. Probably would've taken a sandblaster 20-30 minutes, but hey, I don't mine putting in some sweat equity. It would have gone a LOT quicker had it not been for all the rustproofing that I had to scrape off by hand before any power tools were used. That was a huge time-suck.

For paint I'm going to be using Eastwood's chassis black satin finish. I'll also be using their internal frame coating.