{"id":1231,"date":"2013-07-08T08:38:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T16:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2013-07-28T17:19:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T01:19:14","slug":"minus-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2013\/07\/08\/minus-paint\/","title":{"rendered":"Minus Paint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the entire day inside behind a computer working, but took an hour out to go outside and grind some paint off the bed of the Scout. I&#8217;m using a Norton wheel on my 4.5&#8243; angle grinder, and the paint just seems to fly off with little or no effort. In about 45 minutes I got a good patch of the bed cleared off, including all of the hard-to-reach channels between floor ribs. Now I have to figure out how I&#8217;m going to prep it for eventual bedliner; the current plan is to wash it down with etching cleaner and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.por15.com\/POR-15-_p_8.html\">POR-15<\/a> the whole surface. Before that happens, I have to figure out what I&#8217;m going to do with the areas that are pinholing\u00e2\u20ac\u201cthere are several spots in front of and behind the wheel wells that I can see daylight through. Maybe I just fill them with weld and sand things smooth?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Untitled by idiot king, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/9234259373\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Untitled\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7353\/9234259373_1529d8726c.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Untitled by idiot king, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/9237041164\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Untitled\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7406\/9237041164_2943626409.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One thing is for sure: this is not a clean job. I was wearing a high-quality dust mask, eye and ear protection, and I still came away covered in particles. I think a big box fan will be the order of the day for my next attack.<\/p>\n<p>I ordered a quart of POR-15 and a supplemental bottle of Prep &amp; Ready (cleaner\/degreaser) this morning while I had a free shipping coupon. Now, to make more time to sand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the entire day inside behind a computer working, but took an hour out to go outside and grind some paint off the bed of the Scout. I&#8217;m using a Norton wheel on my 4.5&#8243; angle grinder, and the paint just seems to fly off with little or no effort. In about 45 minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedliner","category-progress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-jR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}