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RE: Good paint stripper? - Charles P - 17-01-2022
(17-01-2022, 11:08 PM)Hugh Barnes Wrote: That's the sort of accolade I want to see on any product of quality
'Can be lethal'
:o)
You can kill someone with a pencil (or three people if you're John Wick)
I've had reasonable results with this https://www.homebase.co.uk/bartoline-tx10-paint-varnish-stripper-2.5l/12815144.html
Takes time and it's not a single application product but it performed better than some of the recent stuff.
c
RE: Good paint stripper? - jansens - 18-01-2022
(17-01-2022, 11:08 PM)Hugh Barnes Wrote: That's the sort of accolade I want to see on any product of quality
'Can be lethal'
:o)
Move to California! Everything there is labelled as potentially lethal.
Whenever I accidentally spill brake fluid it seems to take the paint off whatever it touches.
Simon
RE: Good paint stripper? - Andy Bennett - 18-01-2022
According to the roof of my car bird poo will take off any paint it touches, so just find yourself a tree and a couple of pigeons and you are away.
RE: Good paint stripper? - Hugh Barnes - 18-01-2022
Thank you all, some good suggestions there which I will follow up on...
RE: Good paint stripper? - Dennis Nicholas - 22-01-2022
Brake fluid......available free at your local small garage from their used bin........but not the silicone fluid!!!!
RE: Good paint stripper? - A G Wood - 23-01-2022
My ST38 (and the additional E04A-13407 stop/tail lamp) looked like they had been smeared with semi fluid black enamel by a ham fisted gorilla using a crayfish tail in lieu of a brush. Multiple coats too. Whatever the product was (Hammerite smooth?), it just shrugged off the usual paint removal suspects so I asked my friendly local engine reconditioning shop if I could put in their hot tank (the one the engine blocks go in before they're worked on) overnight. 99.9% removed and what was left in the awkward spots came off easily with a soft brass wire brush.
RE: Good paint stripper? - Hugh Barnes - 23-01-2022
It is interesting. I opted for some 'Starchem Synstrp' which got the most votes - publically and privately - which contains Parazine's recommended constituent. One of the ST38s came up as clean as a whistle but the other, which looked as if it was totally original though a little scabby, has resisted any efforts to strip it. I wonder whether it had been stove enamelled and that made the difference?
RE: Good paint stripper? - Parazine - 23-01-2022
(23-01-2022, 09:47 AM)Hugh Barnes Wrote: It is interesting. I opted for some 'Starchem Synstrp' which got the most votes - publically and privately - which contains Parazine's recommended constituent. One of the ST38s came up as clean as a whistle but the other, which looked as if it was totally original though a little scabby, has resisted any efforts to strip it. I wonder whether it had been stove enamelled and that made the difference?
Yeah, I don't know what that stove enamelling is all about. One of the number plates on my Top Hat was finished with it and I couldn't get it off at all. There was a discussion thread about it some time ago but no-one had a definitive answer as to what the materials or the process was.
RE: Good paint stripper? - Rpm - 23-01-2022
Nitromores ok for small parts like your rear lamps, apply stripper wrap in a plastic bag ,so stuff doesn't dry out,
remove paint with wire wool the next day.
It was good stuff once.
Good Luck.
RE: Good paint stripper? - Hugh Barnes - 23-01-2022
Sadly, in my experience, Nitromors is not the product it used once to be.. :o(