The chassis had all internal components removed (after carefully photographing everything to aid in reassembly) before being sanded down. Any areas of rust were sanded back to bare metal.

Unfortunately I could not persuade the build label to come off of the chassis cleanly so this had to be sacraficed. Before I removed it I carefully took a scan of it by placing the chassis on a flat bed scanner. This will allow me to replace the label with a replica at the end of the rebuild.

The chassis was resprayed in 3 coats of grey primer and then 4 coats of matt black paint. I’m really happy with the results, although in some areas I should have spent longer sanding to get a really perfect finish.