Sometimes that's true but not always, experience tells you when it's best to get a pro .....
I'd sooner find the time than pay a fortune for something that has equal chances of being really good, or really poorIt does come down to whether you have the time. I couldn’t spend two or three days at the minute doing something like that.
....pay a fortune for something that has equal chances of being really good, or really poor
Might be me being a tight northerner, but if I can do the job and be sure it's going to be right I'll find the time. Amount of times I've had work done by people that friends and family had raved about, that then turned out to be absolute garbage is unreal.Yes, but wouldn't appropriate research in advance greatly reduce the chances of it turning out the be the latter?
Might be me being a tight northerner, but if I can do the job and be sure it's going to be right I'll find the time. Amount of times I've had work done by people that friends and family had raved about, that then turned out to be absolute garbage is unreal.
Aye, the excuse "I don't have time" used by some isn't an excuse because they have the same amount of time available to them as everyone else.
That's not to be confused with proper time management as exercised by e.g. @Brad93 , where there's recognition that time available can be spent more profitably/usefully or simply enjoyably.
Let us know how it gets on. I've been suspicious of dipping because there's quite a few horror stories about it. I've used dip stripping at home, on things like wishbones and trailing arms etc, same process of hot caustic soda and then acid, and never found it to give a clean enough surface for coating. It's ok in the places that you can reach with a pressure washer but not in cavities.I think the next time, if there is one, I do a full bare metal restoration of a car body I will send it to be dip stripped. The bare shells on display at the classic car show each year are impressive.