Thanks tallhair

[monaco75]

Thanks again my man, on the lead of the needle scaler. Never heard of/seen one before. Picked up the mini needle scaler tonight. This thing is bad ***!! Also picked up 2 extra sets of needles, as well as some ear muffs, as it is REALLY loud.



Heres the rocker panel after a little wire wheeling-


Here it is after 2 mins with the scaler-


It knocked out a couple more small holes, that the wire wheels never got too.


Also ran it for a quick burst on the frame in the wheel well. I was dreading cleaning the underside, but now kinda looking forward to it!



Idk if I would go stripping the thin sheetmetal hardcore with it, but this thing is amazing on the thicker metals. I'd deff suggest adding one to the tool box, if you dont already have one.

 

[tallhair]

That the one I have .. give it a shot on the frame rails and some undercoating! Great buy and glad to help brother ;)

Oh yeah loud as hell hehehe

 

[commando1]

What's the pros and con's of a needle scaler vs. A heady duty braided wire brush?
I've never had a scaler and thinking maybe I should.

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[monaco75]

What's the pros and con's of a needle scaler vs. A heady duty braided wire brush?
I've never had a scaler and thinking maybe I should.

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From the short time I used it... With a brush your doing just that, brushing/sanding the crap off. Where as the scaler, your "smacking" the crap off. The wire brush/wheels wont pick some things off, that the scaler will.

Like the metal in the pics above on the rocker. There was some weak metal there, however it was still stong enough to hold itself together, when gone over with the wire wheel. But with the scaler, it jared it, and made the weak metal visable. If I had left that, and cut made the patch for the one bigger hole, I would have been burning all kinds of holes trying to find solid metal, to try and weld to.

The only bad thing, I think would be using it on the body sheetmetal. I think the scaler is a little too strong for that.. Maybe I'm wrong though...

 

[Wollfen]

Definitely don't use it on sheet metal, it will distort the crap out of it and mess up your straight panels real quick, the scaler is great for not only body deadener removal but it manages to get all the rust scale off where a wire wheel will only brush over the hard to remove stuff. Plus a scaler will get into all the hard to get corners the wire wheel wont go.And if you use it for a couple of hours straight your hands go numb, I used to use em a lot on full sized coaches and it does great work.

 

[commando1]

So my trunk pan for example.....

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[mcmlvii]

Cool tool. I've heard of them but never thought to buy one, probably thinking they were too expensive. Thanks FCBO.

 

[Catfish]

They work great for chipping welding slag also.:sign19:

 

[Wollfen]

So my trunk pan for example.....

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Depends on what area you do, if there is support behind the panel like the frame rails and gas tank supports it wont be a problem, but out in the middle where the sheet metal can stretch you could be left with a distorted surface, the tool does pack quite a punch. Then again if you turn the air down it might not be so bad thinking about it, the ones i used had up to 300 psi behind em.

 

[bulldogchesty]

It's on my tool list. Thanks.