Volvo EC700 refurbishment

Joes1989 · Post #1 by **Joes1989** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 10:19 pm

My old EC700 was looking tired! It did ALOT of hours muckshifting on my old dio and as a result started feeling abit shabby too!

Seeing as it's my all time favourite machine and the model is hard to find now I decided to strip it down to bare metal and totally refurbish her!

I plan to respray it as close to the original as I possibly can!

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Joe

niner · Post #2 by **niner** » Tue Nov 25, 2014 12:38 am

Fair do's mate you did well stripping all that paint. It can be stubborn stuff. what did you use?

Joes1989 · Post #3 by **Joes1989** » Tue Nov 25, 2014 8:24 am

It came off quite easily mate! Shocked me to be fair! I used nitromors in the green tin! I still need to soak some part to get the rest of it off but not doing that till I get a stiffer wire brush!

Joe

niner · Post #4 by **niner** » Tue Nov 25, 2014 7:23 pm

Nitromors is good stuff. It struggles a bit on the thicker JOAL paint, but to be fair if you threw a joal model into the sun it would still come out with paint on it!

Joes1989 · Post #5 by **Joes1989** » Tue Nov 25, 2014 9:28 pm

Yeh its great stuff! its all I use to strip models!

I know what you mean about joals paint ive stripped a few JS330L's in my time and back in the day ive ended up leaving a lot half stripped or just thrown the parts away in frustrtation!

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