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It's considered a basic food here in Kansas as well.

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The problem with that theory is they'll probably just use those cheap Chinese chemicals and won't do a very good job, or it will be too aggressive and you'll get nothing back.

Mite be cheaper to ship the body to China or India and let them do it over there for $10/day and a bag of rice.

Have you priced rice lately? No sense paying more than the going rate--

i have gotten a qoute from the local shop near me. Metal Rehab is the name of the place. they said around 1600-2000 US depending on how many times it takes to dip.

this is a non-acidic dip too. non caustic formula of their own making. works well too.

but i may not do it as it will eat away at the body seam material too. although it is theoritcally possible to replace all that, i'm not sure i want to go through all that. i'll probably get my sand blasted, but then i cring at the left over hidden rust that the blaster can't get to that the soak would. but, if i can't see it and i dip it....how am going to protect it again anyways.....so...yeah.

Acid dipping is how my shop stripps most of our bodies and body parts.It usually goes for about 3.00 per pound in the USA

I haven't had the chemical dip but did do the sandblasting. The chemical dip has pretty good results although there are some things some chemicals won't touch--undercoat for one seems a bit resistant. Another is sometimes it doesn't get all rinsed out of the cracks and bleeds out later.

If you blast, two points of caution: A good competent blaster who knows what he is doing on sheetmetal is first on the list and second is after things are to the point you go to paint it, take the air hose again and go over every inch of the car paying close attention to any holes of any type in the body anywhere. Do that a couple of times. That grit likes to hide in the funniest places only to get blown out when the painter hits a certain spot in a certain way.