Chemically dipping a whole 1969 Mercury Cougar to remove all the paint and rust
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- Chemically stripping the paint and rust off this classic 1969 Mercury cougar convertible.
This was a pretty simple job. The paint wasn’t tough at all and there was barely any rust. You may notice the bracing where the doors were. We recommend structurally reinforcing all cars but especially convertibles. That way it ensures there is no flexing or warping.
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You guys did a great job! The car is at the body shop now and we're getting ready to address those quarters. I'll make sure to share some photos when it's done!
How about starting a little channel and letting us follow along?
You gotta do it! I’m curious to see what the base is now that you have a clean body. 2 part primer, then black?
Epoxy primer?
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Even after I haven't been an industrial painter for more than 10 years, I still find well prepared steel beautiful. Man, there was nothing like sand blasting mill scale off and watching that profile shape up. I would often draw shapes and then blast em smooth. You know.... For science
Impressed that you guys installed the stay braces across the door openings to prevent the body distorting 👍🏻👍🏻
Someone learned that the hard way. It's bad enough to lift it dry without them, but with all that liquid in it, it would get tweaked pretty badly.
I can imagine that it would probably fold like a mens wallet without them. 🤔
SWEET. Just brought back a memory from late ‘60s. I was still riding bicycles. Me and a friend rode our bikes to a row of garages where his older brother had a garage and was working on a car. Chevy is all I remember at that age. Well when we got there he had the paint and primer totally off the body. I didn’t know any better. Two days later we rode our bikes back over to the garage. Horror. The body had rust ALL OVER THE BODY. I can only imagine what he had to do next because we never went back to check. Ahh the good ol days. Thank You 🙏
I had a 67 cougar when I was a kid. Had the 289ci engine. I got 2 speeding tickets and sold it! Loved the old headlights with vacuum powered covers!
Great job restoring these timeless, priceless classics.
I had a '69 Torino dipped. It was such a time saver in the end that it probably saved 4x over the cost of the dip in my labor alone.
Wow, you ain't joking, that chassis/unified body is really solidly clean, well done.
Thank you ! Watching these videos is so cathartic for me. For me, it doesn’t really matter the make of vehicle ( even though I’m a Ford guy) that is going into the tank, it just the process of “before an after” that does it for me. Great video, keep up the good work !
Fantastic condition, one of the best american 60.s/70's cars I've seen dipped by you! Love the Acid-Cam as well!
Absolutely great job, guys. Finally this Cougar will be in better condition than in 1969.
Yeah. Looks like it would be fun job. Would be for me anyways. . Fantastic job 👏 👍
NOT acid is trapped and will cause rust in between every pinch weld of whole car
If you can't dip it in primer you ruin a car this way
Lifelong body shop owner 40yrs I've seen the years later effects of this sadly on cars people put BIG bucks in
Wow!... You are Not Kidding. She's in Great Shape for that many years/miles etc
This was excellent, amazing how it came out, I've seen blasting but I've never seen start to finish chemical stripping. Great stuff.
One of the most satisfying videos I have ever watched!
Thank you! I appreciate that
It's great there's services like this around. I wonder what it costs.
I had one of those, sold it a few years ago. It had zero rust and I loved it. You can see the car in my video.
Wish I still had her, she turned heads everywhere❤
Your videos are awesome! You should do some follow up videos with the owners when the car is done, we would love to see those
Awsome shots of the dipping process, especially under the dip which I never seen. 👍 great job.
Thank You for making this video! That was super cool to watch! I've never seen that done before
and the 69 cougar was my very first car! That's amazing the process in doing that! Thank You!
I don't know why I find your videos so relaxing I'm really enjoying watching keep up the awesome work
I'm surprised this isn't done more often. It's such a great idea. Nothing protects like this process. I'd love to see them galvanize it afterwards.
That's an amazing body shell from what I can see good luck with the build
Nice camera work coming from the tank,well done.
Good grief I can't believe that is in that kind of shape!! Someone has got themselves a super nice build there! Great job on the dip and cleanup as well. I enjoyed the video. 👍👍
Can't stop watching your videos. Great job! Nice transformation of a pice of mess.
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Wonderful job
Ouuuuuuuuu weeeeeee, that baby looks super clean and ready to build.
I had a 69 cougar , blue and white ..my favorite car..
My hubby bought me a 68 cougar and i made him get rid of it ,not my 69 cougar..
That one you all dipped had alot of layers of pant on it..
Thank for sharing..🥰
Ah, how I wanted a 69 Cougar!! Glad to see a restoration in progress.
finally someones restoring a cat one of my favorite cars I'm sure it s gonna be great getting a complete restoration !
I enjoy seeing all the different colours it was
I was expecting holes, really solid car!!!
I WATCHED YALL DIP THE 70 CHEVELLE😭 MY HUSBAND PASSED AND I STILL HAVE HIS. IT MADE ME CRY. LIKE A BITTERSWEET CRY. HE WOULD SOOO BE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF WHAT YOUR DOING. HE JUST NEVER GOT TO RESTORE IT.😭. GREAT JOB. WHERE ARE YA LL LOCATED?
That's how you begin a frame up restore the right way.
The vin tag came out mint. She is clean.
The only way but I can just imagine the years I would have to work to get it done. Great day to you 6.
That car was definitely needing that bath. It now will have a fresh new start at life again.
If not for all the cancer fumes this seems like a very enjoyable and gratifying job.
Invest in a spreader bar for attaching ropes to the cars, super clean job
Must be nice to get to start the work with a nice clean fully stripped car.Major labor savings for the restorer
Dangle dipping a '69 cougar? Bold.
Just for snicks they should pull out a stripped bicycle from under a car someday. That is if you are referring to Lt. Dangle.
I really enjoyed watching this
That’s a clean car. I’d be curious how it’s held up since dipping. I’ve heard stories of the chemicals leaching through pinch welds and seams later.
Like all Chemical Dip Processing, a proper Warm Water Rinse, is recommended! Sometimes it's Hot water, and Tipping, Rolling, etc, on something like this, to thoroughly Drain all solutions from the Metal Pockets, even before the Rinse, and again after!
Even after the Pressure Wash Spray down.
@@robertweekley5926 yeah I think the issue is that it’s hard to properly rinse between seams, and then on top of that, coating those part’s after. I’d dip parts like fenders and individual panels… but to dip a whole car, unless it could be dipped in primer after, I’d be cautious.
It looks great after all that old paint and things are removed
This is so satisfying to watch
That is in great shape for a convertible
Did this to mt 1970 Galaxie in 1999. Awesome outcome. Not to be a buzz kill…. But how do you handle the disposal of what comes off, the water needed to do it, etc. You must amass a huge amt over the course of a year. Hoping there is some process that reclaima, neutralizes..
Goes to the same place as EV batteries.
Absolutely pristine 👍
This is so awesome I'm glad I found your channel thanks 👍
Thank you! I really appreciate that. I’m glad you enjoy it! There’s a lot more to come.
A flawless job
Nicely done, it's the only real way to do it right.
What do you do inside the seat risers? It’s a cavity, usually rusts out from the inside. It is cool that it looks like a bright yellow car. Same with the cowl vent area , how would you coat it after its stripped?
Is it correct soda blasting body shells is the usual method now as not all the acid can be removed with dipping?
Mercury Cougar.... Always the red-headed step child to the Ford Mustang.
So ball park how much would a job like cost and do y'all also dip ot back into just plain eater ot something to netruallize what ever chemicals y'all are using? Great outcome on that car though. I'm debating on getting a 48 fleetmaster to restore that is completely solid.
What’s the ball park price range on getting something like this done?
Great idea!! Great job guys 💪👍👍👍
Here in the rust belt we dream of cars in this condition
What I can never understand is, surely when you strip all the paint off it will start rusting inside the cavities especially inside those A post's .
They rinse and then bake it but I can’t imagine they can get all of the acidic residue out of the seams. I’ve heard horror stories so personally I’d avoid this method
Dip it to primer /seal it?
No rinse/neutralizer?
Every area you hit with the pressure wand would be the same areas reached with low pressure media blasting..Without leaving hidden areas (chassis,plenum,rockers)exposed to residual rust,paint,acid.
DEFINITELY SO ....I would never do this
Blasting with walnut shells is the best
It was made in the era I was born and I worked on those in the beginning of my career and I miss the 60/70/& early 80's cars. Life was good and better than today
Didn't take a 25 hour ticket to put a motor in something like a Toyota Sequoia or something like 6
Today cars and trucks are just too over engineered for working on them like before. Glad I am getting closer to retirement. LOL
That's crazy clean 😲
Did you make after that zinc cover to preserve that beauty?
That's beautiful man
Is it dipped it something to keep it from getting a surface rust on removal? I think it would be nice once the welding is done to dip in something that would coat all the inside channels. You could finnish bump and fill on the exterior panels then.
I thought about doing this with my classic British roadster, but I'm pretty sure nothing would come out of the dip tank.
Lol, like a cheese melt panini. 😅
This video checked soooo many boxes!
How could a person get started in doing that kind of work and where would you get the chemicals for doing that or even the tanks .. where would y'all be located at
Where are you guys located .. this is wonderful .. cleaning the car … for me is the main reason I do not practice my passion of restoring cars and motorcycles …
What happens with all the sludge from the tanks?
What chemical do u first use?
What chemical is used for rust?
How do u expose of it?
I have 2 door 1963 Cadillac convertible. It’s been in the garage for 20 years.
How much does it cost to do a strip down on a vehicle and chemically clean? With the body and frame?
I work on Ford Model A's. Would the chemicals eat away the wood sub structure found in these cars?
they only make it for 2 years if I'm correct?¿
Boy I'd love to see a whole submarine done that way.
How do you clean up the dirty water from all the chemicals and lead from the paint after you are done with the car? Where does the water go?
How much does it cost to have a car dipped like that?
Great work
how far ahead you are, I wish we had this technology in Greece too
This is the correct dangle
Excellent, congratulations!
Nice work guys amazing 👏 👍
Thank you 🙌
Idk why but this looks like a fun job😅
What is the average cost of stripping and dipping a car?
3k flat rate
How often does the acid get changed as I'd imagine after it's burnt off paint once or twice It ain't as good as it ment to be
Are these primed immediately after or do they go thru another process
Great job. And I have never seen a more obvious shot of the whole shock tower situation that makes running the big blocks in these cars such a challenge. Headers and plugs would be a struggle. Cheers 🍺
Those are really nice cars and there's not many of them I'd like to see it done also
I think that turbo nozzle is doing 90% of the work
Black, white yellow, red. What was the original color?
What do You use on the metal after the final rinse to keep the flash rust away ?
Even if they dip it in something to neutralize the acid it's still bare metal in every crack and crevice that cannot be painted so basically they ruined the car it will rust badly everywhere you cannot paint
Dipping in a vat of primer afterwards would be the only way I would do this
Lifelong body shop owner here 40yrs
@@drifter9425 What do you like, media blasting?
Love watching you guys great job
I appreciate that thank you!
I used to have two caustic soda tanks, where I drip & stripped doors, I used to spray them down with a pressure washer, like you're doing, what chemical are you using in your tank?
That was awesome.
Question. Where does all of that sprayed off acid go? Into our drainage system?
We have a pit under the washbay that’s separate from our sewer drainage. The runoff is collected there. We then pump it out into evaporation tanks that have heat exchangers to evaporate all the water out of it. What’s left is a neutral sludge. We then pay a company who specializes in chemical waste disposal to dispose of it properly for us.
They do a good job but where are they located
Hey, quick question about this car...this cougar has an intermediate blinking rear turn single right?
Reason I ask is I remember my uncle swearing like a madman trying to fix it in the 80s.
I could watch these all day and I always have a question. Would it help if there was a small circulating pump in the tanks to move the solutions around to work more?
It does help! We actually have a pump that circulates the chemicals but I have to remove it everytime we pull a car out
@@minute_of_dangle Hi, what's the chemistry in the container?
Hello! What kind of acid do you use after alkali treatment?
Amazing
What are the actual chemicals it was dipped in?
If one stuck their hand in the acid, how long til he screamed out in pain ?