Well my buddy sent his '67 Belvedere out to the dipper and got it back on Thursday after roughly a week. I got there to pick it up a little early so they hadn't quite finished with the rust preventer but since rain was forecast and he has a flatbed trailer he wanted to get it loaded and home a.s.a.p. to try and miss the rain. Didn't happen !! So it got a little damp but no big deal.

The thing is AMAZINGLY clean. Since he started with a decent shell and replaced what little rot there was before sending it out, there is only a small floor area that got eaten away and now needs a patch. There are areas of flash rust in places where the rinse took a while to drain out. There is also flash rust from where they didn't spray the inhibitor and where the rain washed it off. We sprayed and wiped some areas with a rust inhibitor we buy locally (like Metalprep) and it came clean almost instantly. The plan is to spray in the frame rails to convert any flash rust and then use Eastwood Rust Encapsulator to seal the insides. Probably do the same in the rockers and maybe even down in the door bottoms.

The process does get into all the seams and there is absolutely no visible rust remaining. If the solution was able to get in and eat the rust, there's no reason to believe the rinse didn't thoroughly remove the solution.

There have been some recent posts about dipping versus blasting. Well its just a simple fact that blasting just can not reach the areas dipping does. You have to ask yourself if you want to leave rust to continue to grow or do you want to stop it dead in its tracks and do your best to prevent it from coming back.

I've had two vintage gas pumps dipped and never again will I go to sand blasting.Bolts and screws that couldn't be removed before dipping can now be taken out with your fingers after loosening,dipping (not smokeless tobacco) only way to go.

Good info to know. thank you.

Can you share contact info for the dipper and a ballpark price?

Kevint

Pictures would be nice

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