marine air wrote:
I have a couple of jeeps that I was trying to document their original military units and markings.
I started off with stripper trying to find the serial number on one side of the hood. Stripper eats voaraciuously and indiscrimantly like termites; barely on the surface and then a 1/4 inch over all the way down to the metal. SO scrapped using liquid stripper for this.
Decided to use sandpaper. The grits go from about 20 to 2000 grit. I started off using like 6o to 100 grit , not too much pressure until I saw a trace of the yellow markings. then switched to 150 and then finally when trying to literally remove tiny amounts around the stencilling went to the 200 grit.
I sold my restored M-38A1 Jeep a couple of weeks ago and the buyer , a Vietnam veteran said the reason he bought it is that it had the documented unit markings on it.
You are so right... never, ever use stripper if you are trying to document the markings. Wire wool works really well too... getting down to really fine grade when you are trying to be delicate.
Cheers,
Richard
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