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Originally Posted by Ryan Adkins
Thank you @962porsche, I will plan on dipping the car at this point then. Do you have any recommendations on thinks to ask when finding a place to do the dip?
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some dipping places will also do the E-coating .
others that will just do the dip stripping do not also do e-coating so it could be left up to you or they will sublet the e-coating out.
we did have a problem with a place many years ago that stripped a few of our cars for us.
what happened to one car was they went thru the 3 steps to strip the car. acid , alkaline and then rust-inhibitor. the problem is the rust inhibitor only works for a short time to prevent flash rust. the place they sublet the e-coating out to took 6 weeks to e-coat the car. by the time the car got dipped in e-coat it started to flash rust and was coated over it.
when we started working on the car and sanded thru the E-coat we saw rust under it.
this was a big problem. what we got was the stripping place and the e-coating place pointing there fingers at each other. turned out it took almost 3 weeks for the stripping CO. to get the car over to the coating place and then took the coating place another 3 plus weeks to get the job in and coat it.
part of the problem was the C0. they used to ship the cars from the stripper to the e-coating place. I was told by the coating business the load of things that came to them from the stripper Co. came on a open trailer. the stripping place said it was BS! I feel it was true????
needless to say it was a total do over and we ended up footing much of the bill again.
after that mess we would go get the car right away and get it right to the E-coating business. we would make dam sure the car would get coated right away. I hate to say it but at times I know we were a PITA making many calls to both the stripping place and the coating place to coordinate everything. then sending one of our employees with our trailer to bring the cars 150 from one place to the other.