Removing paint from crevices

Ignoramus25173 · 2008-03-02T21:14:06+00:00

I bought a Famco 3R press today. $80 from Craigslist. According tosome eBay auction descriptions, it can do up to 4 tons of force. It weighs, I would say, 170 lbs. It is about all I can lift bymyself. While it is in good physical shape, no major rust, etc, itspaint flaked off in about 3/4 of its area.I decided to clean it up and repaint it. To that end, I removed paintfrom easy to access areas using a 4" grinder and a cup brush. Thattook care of 80% of paintable surface. However, that left a lot ofcrevices uncleaned.To clean, them, I am leaning towards visiting Harbor Freight andbuying some sandblasting gun and just sandblasting those places. Would anyone have any suggestions here?Also, what primer would you use to paint it. I am kind of tempted to paint it in some fun color like red.thanksi

Mar 02, 2008 41 Replies

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GeoLane at PTD dot NET 18 years ago

Thanks. Good Instructions. I saved that for future reference.

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Michael A. Terrell 18 years ago

I made a toy gun from a broken window shade once. You would wind the spring all the way up. then push the homemade trigger to release it, and a small rock. It would send the rock about 40 to 50 feet, and hurt like hell to get hit. I left a lot of bruises on a couple neighborhood bullies. They would be so busy laughing at the way it looked, that you could get a couple feet from them. Then you just waited till they reached for it, and let them hit the trigger. :)

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