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Paint stripper
« on: November 22, 2021, 03:17:19 am »

Have an old boat, 1970s era, Sea vommander.
Done a lead test which was negative.
Whats the best paint stripper out there. Hull is plywood....suggestions  please. <:(
Layers of paint are grey primer, blue, orange, brown then white
Tried polycell gel stripper, absolutely useless! Same hot air gun.
Is there is product that i can paint one, leave then peel off????
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Re: Paint stripper
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2021, 09:34:53 am »

Sorry Pete, it's all pot luck! I found Rustins Strypit a bit better than Nitromors but it's all gone "Safe". Do you know whether the paint is spirit based or water?
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Re: Paint stripper
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2021, 11:16:05 am »

Both Tony!!!
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Re: Paint stripper
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2021, 12:10:23 pm »

Might be worth a call? https://www.stripperspaintremovers.com/product/kling-strip/#tab-reviews Depends whether they class ply as veneers?
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Re: Paint stripper
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2021, 12:27:25 pm »

Acetone ?

I paid about £18 for a 4 ltr bottle of pure acetone at our local hairdresser supplies store.
I've not used it as a stripper, per se, but it's powerful stuff for cleaning finishing resin out of brushes.



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Re: Paint stripper
« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2021, 12:34:58 pm »

Have an old boat, 1970s era, Sea vommander.
Done a lead test which was negative.
Whats the best paint stripper out there. Hull is plywood....suggestions  please. <:(
Layers of paint are grey primer, blue, orange, brown then white
Tried polycell gel stripper, absolutely useless! Same hot air gun.
Is there is product that i can paint one, leave then peel off????
Paint stripper has been rendered 'woke' under the god of green ecology. A heat gun at the right temperature will shift any paint but might need to be a bit too 'hot' for a boat hull made of ply.
Best bet is elbow grease and suitable grades of sand paper.
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Re: Paint stripper
« Reply #6 on: November 22, 2021, 02:14:53 pm »

Fairy Power Spray
As used by many on here
It eats the paint but is gentle
On the substrate.
Stav used to like it, so good enough
for me.
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Re: Paint stripper
« Reply #7 on: November 22, 2021, 07:53:34 pm »

Hi Ned,
 Nice one never heard of that will keep in in mind thanks for the Head up.
              Regards Howard.
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Re: Paint stripper
« Reply #9 on: November 23, 2021, 10:06:48 am »

Try your local car body repair suppliers ours have a very strong one.


Works wonders.
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Re: Paint stripper
« Reply #10 on: November 23, 2021, 08:21:46 pm »

You can also try scraping it off. That will keep you occupied for a couple of days. nemesis
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Re: Paint stripper
« Reply #11 on: November 23, 2021, 08:34:25 pm »

Fairy Power Spray
As used by many on here
It eats the paint but is gentle
On the substrate.
Stav used to like it, so good enough
for me.
Ned


It works or doesn't, bit like jeyes fluid.  Have only used both in relatively small parts and bagged up.  Both work -sometimes and as the other forums say not much rhyme nor reason to either.
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Re: Paint stripper
« Reply #12 on: November 23, 2021, 09:14:34 pm »

Sadly Pete,
We can some stuff over here in the local equivalent of B&Q that would help you, acetone 5ltr 4 Euro, hooch / paint stripper that will take your skin off, acid that cleans rust off rusty things......no nanny state here
Next years model shows I will sneak you some over......


Not much help now though..........good luck
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Re: Paint stripper
« Reply #13 on: November 23, 2021, 09:26:32 pm »

Sadly Pete,
We can some stuff over here in the local equivalent of B&Q that would help you, acetone 5ltr 4 Euro, hooch / paint stripper that will take your skin off, acid that cleans rust off rusty things......no nanny state here
Next years model shows I will sneak you some over......


Not much help now though..........good luck
Just to say when I was in France I could buy a whole manner of really quite strong chemicals simply in Carrefour (French equivalent of Tesco).  I can conform 100% percent we do NOT have that much simple access to those products or in the same volume the same way in the UK!!
One thing I found a little strange thuough is I have numerus old parts painted with revell enamel and not much else if at all as a primer and acetone nver touched any of them!  Whatever Revell are putting in their stuff it sticks like proverbial.  I had this with smoothrite a few years ago and it was pretty much impervious to any chemical or a red hot flame -could only sand blast it off.
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Re: Paint stripper
« Reply #14 on: November 23, 2021, 10:37:41 pm »

PHIL, bring over some of that local Calvados, as I seem to remember that could strip paint at 20yds!
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Re: Paint stripper
« Reply #15 on: November 24, 2021, 09:09:25 pm »

30 yds.    {-) {-)
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