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[Steamboat Willie]

Is there a safe paint remover capable of removing cheap car aerosol paint from a badly painted carbon fibre and glassfibre hull and deck.
The boat is well worth restoring but the current paint job done with Halfords car paint is unbelievably bad.
Can anyone help with suggestions or products?

[triumphjon]

NITROMOORS  , or lots of elbow grease & wet n dry sandpaper ! personally id use the nitromoors paint stripper as it will be quicker & easier . make sure to wash all traces off with lots of water . there are other brands avilable that are cheaper , but dont work as quickly . jon

[HS93 (RIP)]

try fairy power spray , yes I thought it was a joke when I first hears of using it and i spent hours scraping and sanding some parts then decided to try it , spray it on leave for an hour then wash off if any left try another coat  just wear gloves if you have sensitive hands, but no lingering chemicals it works great.

Peter

[DickyD]

I'll go with the Fairy Power Spray, excellent. 

[Popeye]

Is there a safe paint remover capable of removing cheap car aerosol paint from a badly painted carbon fibre and glassfibre hull and deck.
The boat is well worth restoring but the current paint job done with Halfords car paint is unbelievably bad.
Can anyone help with suggestions or products?

Langlow's SAFER STRIPPER is a green gell-like product which will remove multi layers of paint (enamel, acrylic, polyurethane, cellulose etc.,) without damaging GRP moldings, timber  or ABS.

I used it to successfully remove all paint, including a polyurethane varnish top coat, from a GRP hull molded with simulated plating and thousands of rivet heads. It was a time consuming job achieved with the aid of a toothbrush rather than  a scraper, but every particle was safely removed without damage to the hull's gell coat finish.

GOOGLE it, and look for it in a good builders merchant or marine Chandler if it's unavailable from the usuall DIY supermarket sources. 

Good luck.

[funtimefrankie]

Wilkinsons paint stripper works OK on GRP, but not plasticard.

[malcolmfrary]

Following a mates experience with Nitromors and GRP several years ago, I would not let the two anywhere near each other.  Having converted the GRP into a steaming blob, he dumped it into the plastic dustbin, which it then proceeded to eat a hole through.  His mum let him buy a new bin. 
The formulation of Nitromors MAY have changed, but I would only use it on known non-plastic items.

[Steamboat Willie]

 Thanks everybody for the feedback I have had previous experience with Nitromores and I will not be using that this time the F airy solution sounds interesting failing that which is handier I will try to get some Langlows.  Thank you Guys .........Great help!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Nige52]

I have a couple of blown plastic kits which I thought of stripping the paint off as the original owner had not done too great a job, one is a Graupner Police/Fire launch which I am working on now. Will this Fairy Power Spray affect the thin plastic which the superstructure is made from? If not, I'll rush out this morning and buy a bottle 
Cheers
Nige

[Nige52]

Oh, and who sells it? Asda, Sainsbury's Wicks's?

[DickyD]

Your local supermarket 

[HS93 (RIP)]

yep Dickie is right most supermarkets  it is a comman house hold cleaner, and yes it is used by a lot of plastic modelers, if you use it on metal , remember to re prime straight away as it will rust fast.

http://www.fairy-dish.co.uk/products/powerspray.aspx


Peter

[Edward Pinniger]

I'd also highly recommend Fairy Power Spray for stripping paint from plastic, metal, resin, GRP or more or less anything else! I've soaked small plastic parts in it for days or even weeks and the paint simply dissolved or peeled off leaving the plastic completely unaffected.

[Nige52]

Well I have bought some and just lathered the superstructure with foam.....

[HS93 (RIP)]

Just use it neat, give it an hour or two without touching it

Peter

[Nige52]

Oh wow..............wrinkle wrinkle little boat....it's working like a charm. There are at least 2 layers to get through and in places 3. I've washed it down under the tap and have applied a second layer.

This reminds me of of another product and it's uses. When needing to apply a high gloss varnish or lacquer on small and delicate parts, we used to use Johnsons Klear applied with a modellers brush. This set rock hard and shiny and gives a good protective finish 

Nige

[HS93 (RIP)]

Glad it's working , if you leave it overnight with a good coat you will probably get it all off. I used it on metal parts that had beenpainted with Humbrol and some that had a etch primer primer then top coat. it worked like a charm.

peter