Otter LRC CM4647296 comes home

[Jordan Baker]

Really enjoying this citric acid bath for rust removal and now also a caustic bath for paint removal. These parts had some serious heavy rusting to clean off. It would have taken a few hours of work in the blasting cabinet. Instead I left the parts soaking over night and they came out pretty clean. A few spots still had the heavy post war Dutch paint. However the needle scaler made short work. The caustic bath was made up using Purple Zep cleaner. With the heater in that tub the paint is simply melting off the seats. Tomorrow morning I should be able to hose off the remaining paint and then leave them in the citric bath for 24hrs. The stuff will then be ready for painting. The finished up parts comprised of the two antenna mounts, shovel handle bracket, pick axe handle bracket and combination bracket that held the shovel blade, pry bar end and pick axe handle.

[Jordan Baker]

Parts being prepped for painting. Most of these are for the radiator shrouds. Also some side and brake light mounting brackets. The larger parts were all cleaned up after soaking in the citric acid bath. I’ve also created a caustic bath for removing all the paint. It’s working great as well on the parts that don’t fit in the blasting cabinet.

[Jordan Baker]

Lastly some seat parts all painted up. The turret seat is now mounted on the basket frame. Interestingly it used square headed bolts and nuts. The originals were too rusted out so new ones were used in place.

[Alex van de Wetering]

Originally Posted by Jordan Baker

Lastly some seat parts all painted up. The turret seat is now mounted on the basket frame. Interestingly it used square headed bolts and nuts. The originals were too rusted out so new ones were used in place.

Nice work again, Jordan. That lower seat bar almost looks like it's made of wood with all that pitting! It's great to see you are trying to save as much original metal as possible, preserving the history of the vehicle.

[Jordan Baker]

Thanks Alex. I figured the vehicle is still quite original, so I should use as much as possible. The seat bar did get repaired the other year. One arm had a split in it and the other arm was pretty much cracked. Pictures are posted earlier in this thread.

[Jordan Baker]

Pretty happy with how this small handle for the seats is coming along. The original was cast. The one I’m making was cut out from a piece of flat steel bar. Just have to do the mounting hole.

[Jordan Baker]

Got around to removing the smoke round rack. It was held on by two bolts that did not want to come out. I ended up drilling the heads out. This part is in pretty good shape and will clean up nicely. The awesome surprise when I lifted the one end up…..some 303 casings.