Thats interesting, I never knew that.
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best way to remove bondo?
- Thread starter wazzabie
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Is a 8in mud hog sander good to use?
It will take forever and might scratch the metal
Yeah I learned this when I was doing a frame off on my 74 k5, 26 years ago, we stripped the body down to bare metal and got it to as perfect as can be with stretch and shrink.
Then the paint h
Guy took over and he spent so much on bondo and in the end the paint job looked like crap.
The shop owner decided to investigate and we found that the guy had up to 1/2" of bondo in some spots, so instead of block sanding that much he started stripping it with the torch and a scraper then gave it a quick thin coating to cover in tiny hammer marks and the job turned heads after that.
He used one tub of mud the second time around versus the 12 the first guy did.
Is there a 10in mud hog?
Why would it take forever?
If you want remove all of it to get to bare metal it takes too long to sand, the car bondo is a lot harder than mud, so it will be time consuming.
If you just want remove excess then it will be ok
What is the difference between mud and bondo?
I was assuming you were talking mud as in gypsum mud
Boz61
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As a former Body Tech, I concur with this comment. Make sure you have a extinguisher source since it will burn. Stiff putty knife to knock in down! Quick & minor cleanup with minimal residue.
Why not use a bondo hog?
Ok I guess I will explain more why the heat is better, if you don't know what is underneath the bondo, you could be hitting high points with the hog, with a scraper and heat you can carve anything from nooks and crannies.
I had once a van that had been sideswiped and they used a slide hammer to pull the dent out a little and it made little craters at each hole so you had a valley full of little pointy craters, the hog would hacaught on all of them and possibly ripped the sheet metal.
Why would a bondo hog take forever to remove paint and bondo?
You should totally ignore any good advice here and just do it the way you wanted to before asking. Take pics!
Is it best to remove to bare metal or just the excess. The paint is cracking from the very old paint.
I'm surprised no one suggested a hammer...
Is your goal to remove cracks for now or to get to metal to fix the body work better to reduce the thickness of bondo used.
Anything more than 1/32" thick will eventually crack.
If you want to keep the truck remove all the way to metal and fix it right.
If you just want to make it look better just grind where the cracks are, get some bondo with fiber reinforcement and patch it and paint.
