(copied from my post on a different site )
well spent today scraping and sanding another part of the dash panels in preporation for spraying them black.
it's a very laborious and time consuming job to do as the supra dash panels came with a sort of 'rubber' coating which you have to 'remove' before sanding some more and priming/painting.
so.. these are the panels that will be sprayed-
(at this stage i had sanded the panel on the right and half the top panel, the panel at the bottom does not have the rubber coating)
this is the rubber coating i am talking about with a score out of it.
the method i found best was to heat the rubber with a heat gun then 'scrape' as much off with a 20p piece. i then, with very rough sandpaper, sanded the remaining gunk off.
half sanded, half scraped-
and after about 2hrs this was the final 'de-rubbered' panel-
so now i just have the two small panels to 'de-rubber' next saturday then i can sand them smooth, degrease and begin the spraying process.