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Quality! This time around, the car should last a while. I'm loving this thread.

Quality! This time around, the car should last a while. I'm loving this thread.

Just hope I don't bore you all to death by the time I get around the car with all the welding thats now required to get the car to the high standards that the owner is expecting

To paraphrase (sort of ) Samuel Johnson:
When a man is tired of Jowett Javelin-related information on a web forum, he is tired of life.

When a man is tired of Jowett Javelin-related information on a web forum, he is tired of life.

If you keep this up John our membership officer is going to banging on your front door with a new members form in his hand

Whenever I go over to Renfrew to catch up with my old mate Brian (Marshall), he usually has a copy of The Jowetteer lying around somewhere, open at an article that he's been reading. This, and the fact that I've been to a couple of other Jowett club folks' homes when I've been West of the border, means that these chaps' enthusiasm has rubbed off on me these past 20 years or so.

I always have had a soft spot for an underdog of the motoring world, especially one that's so cleverly put together. Anyway, mustn't keep you reading my waffle when you could be busy posting more of the good stuff....

Anyway, mustn't keep you reading my waffle when you could be busy posting more of the good stuff....

Ok here's a few more installments, We have been researching the best way to acheive getting the panels & bodyshell into bare metal and due to lead times and other factors which would mean getting the shell off the chassis tiliter and out of the workshop and onto a trailer - (a lot easier said than done) it would be good if we knew which direction we were heading in. So Keith (who is now retired with loads of time to kill NOT !) carried out quite a lot of research and although the dipping process is very good at removing paint / rust etc there is quite a bit of adverse reaction by restorers that have had used this process. It would transpire that several months after the car has been restored owners are having recation problems with the paint on the car - it would appear that some of the chemical residue form the process finds it's way out of joints / panels seams etc and plays havoc with the paint. Has you may gather from the thread this is not the first car that I have restored either and have previously had shells & panels blasted - the problem with blasting is that the panels always end up getting distorted by the process especially any large flatish panels such as doors / boots / bonnets / roofs - in my opinion it's pointless having panels blasted clean of paint just to start putting kilos of body filler back in them to correct the blasting distortion. Further to this blasting can not access any voids or box sections like the dipping process can - but more on this in the next option. So two options down it leaves us looking for the in house solution, so using one door as a test panel I removed any remaining trim

Next plan of attack No not the Waitrose Four Chesse Sauce But a good quality paint stripper - this was £60 for 4 litres

A few stripper coats later Next weapon of choice was this - angle grinder fitted with a poly cabon disc Ten mins later we had this result The discs are great and although they wear the do not clog or burn, further to this whilst they clear the paint they do not effect the metal or leave deep grinding marks - they can be expensive but if you purchase in bulk (10 +) they can be had for under a fiver each.