stripping paint

[akroflyer]

Can anyone recommend a good paint stripper to use on boot cowl and engine cowl, I'm not having any luck finding anything that works good. Thanks, Keith T

[flybikefarm]

Re: stripping paint

Try to find someone who does plastic bead stripping. does not warp aluminum.

[Pearson]

Re: stripping paint

I use Klean Strip Aircraft Paint Remover. It is $39 a gallon. I got if from a local paint store. It works well after you give it enough time. It is an amonia base.

[swoeric]

Re: stripping paint

my favorite is pure nitric acid no water at 200 degrees use it most days to pull paint off AL. but not real convenient on a boot cowl. lowes has an aersol stripper make sure its over 60 degrees and let it sit reapply till paint bubbles then scrape with plastic puddy knife

[Larry Lyons]

Re: stripping paint

Great timing, I was just going to post my question about strippers. A few years ago; not long, just 2 or three, we used a liquid soap for dish washers on the cowl, floor boards, trim, etc., and the doors on the 46 it worked great. The problem is no one remembers what it was we used now. (think barley pop!) I have tried a couple with no luck, any suggestions?
Larry

[d.grimm]

Re: stripping paint

Google Soy Gel. I've had really good luck with it and it doesn't
Smell or burn your skin.
Dave

[Hank Jarrett]

Re: stripping paint

Wow, I'm not sure i would want to eat off of a plate that was cleaned with something that could strip paint off of metal! What WAS that stuff?

When I was at the Naval Air Rework Facility I helped develop a great system for stripping paint from aluminum. We blasted the metal with ground up dry ice. Worked great and just left a pile of dry paint flecks that were not considered haz mat for disposal. We even built a CO2 extractor to make our dry ice from the air in the blast room so we were recycling a huge percentage of the CO2 and only had to pull a little from the atmosphere. We had a net effect of zero emissions but the EPA stopped us anyway because they ONLY measured how much was coming out and refused to consider where we were getting it! We were taking it from the air and evaporating the same amount back into the same air but they didn't care. It was a "CO2 emission" and we had to stop. IDIOTS! We went back to disposing of DRUMS of caustic paint and stripper waste, but THAT wasn't the atmospheric pollution monitors problem. We should have just locked the guy in the blasting room. The CO2 concentrations in the blasting room were DEADLY. You had to have a fresh air hose on until the CO2 condenser had pulled the CO2 out and the room was ventilated. We weren't ADDING any CO2 to the atmosphere, we were just concentrating it in one room for the time it took to strip the paint.
It sure was neat to blow off the plane with compressed air and then clean up the mess with a dust pan and broom. Left a BEAUTIFUL surface for priming too. If you were careful you could blast off paint one layer at a time. We could remove the paint and leave the primer. GREAT system!
Hank