Europa-List: Removing Paint from Engine Mount?????

[Alexander Kaarsberg <kaarsber@terra.com.br>]

Tony
Bead blasting is OK it makes the part stronger if done carefully, (by 
compression the surface and stretching the inside, oversimplification! )
Grit blasting is dubious.
Graham 


-- beadblasting and flappeening are techniques employed when surface
hardening is desired, it is a gentle way of coldworking a metal
surface- but while it hardens the surface, it would also become more
brittle.
Whether an engine mount would benefit from that or not would be 
interesting to learn from our resident and always helpful
metallurgist, the good Mr. Housman?

Alex #529