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by **gwdoc** on Sun May 05, 2013 12:01 pm

I'm getting ready to start a resto on a newly aquired Simplex D-480 and I don't want to media blast it because I don't want to leave any profile on the metal. Can anyone tell me what they consider the best stripper would be to use? Is there a specific brand or kind that works best?

by **vaughn** on Sun May 05, 2013 6:03 pm

I have used a paint stripper rattle can but never had any luck with it, it never really got down to the bottom layers. There's many brands out there but I've always used my drill with a wire wheel on it to strip paint.
I've always wanted to have a 55 gal drum of stripper you can simply dip the light in one day and remove it the next day and it be stripped clean of paint, that'd be nice. It wouldn't have to be 1 day :No:

2-3 days, it wouldn't matter as long as I didn't have to work :roll:

by **64ragtop** on Sun May 05, 2013 8:22 pm

As far as a brand you can buy at Lowe's etc... I would recommend Jasco Paint and Epoxy Remover. I've had good experience with it.

Seems to me I remember there being a thread on here about some industrial strength stuff that magnetboy used. I can't remember what the verdict was on how good it worked... I just remember he burned the skin off his hands :Phil:

by **gwdoc** on Sun May 05, 2013 9:17 pm

t looking foward to burning the skin off my hands, but it would be nice to have something strong enough to soak it and forget about the work

by **EdT.** on Sun May 05, 2013 9:51 pm

I've had great luck with Citristrip. It's relatively inexpensive and eats slop coats for lunch, but it won't touch the really hard stuff (factory base coats).

Soy Gel OTOH, will remove any paint it comes in contact with. It's a bit pricey though. :sad:

The biggest advantage to using either Citristrip or Soy Gel is that they're much more ecologically friendly than the harsher stuff out there. And subsequently, they can also be used indoors without having to worry about frying your lungs. They can also be cleaned up with water. Just bear in mind that the used stripper may have lead paint in it if that's what it was stripping obviously.

Here's an earlier thread on this that might help you find what you need:
More stripper talk.

by **Troy** on Sun May 05, 2013 10:53 pm

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by **pyth** on Fri May 10, 2013 8:37 am

EdT. wrote:I've had great luck with Citristrip. It's relatively inexpensive and eats slop coats for lunch, but it won't touch the really hard stuff (factory base coats).

Soy Gel OTOH, will remove any paint it comes in contact with. It's a bit pricey though.

The biggest advantage to using either Citristrip or Soy Gel is that they're much more ecologically friendly than the harsher stuff out there. And subsequently, they can also be used indoors without having to worry about frying your lungs. They can also be cleaned up with water. Just bear in mind that the used stripper may have lead paint in it if that's what it was stripping obviously.

Here's an earlier thread on this that might help you find what you need:
More stripper talk.

A downside to Citristrip is that it takes up to 24 hours to remove a good amount, whereas standard Klean-Strip can get an okay amount off in 15-30 minutes, depending on which potency is used.

by **Magnetboy** on Fri May 10, 2013 9:31 am

64ragtop wrote:Seems to me I remember there being a thread on here about some industrial strength stuff that magnetboy used. I can't remember what the verdict was on how good it worked... I just remember he burned the skin off his hands

I've tried so many stripping chemicals that I can't remember which one that was. :lol:

Any chemical stripper with Methylene Chloride in the ingredients will do the same thing though. Methylene Chloride is pretty powerful stuff. We had a 55 gallon drum of it in the machine shop that I used to work at to degrease and strip aluminum cylinder heads and blocks.

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