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Removing Rustoleum from a lower receiver
2/23/2012 4:16:23 PM
I was into the whole Flat Dark Earth fad and want to strip the rest of the Rustoleum off my Spike's lower receiver.
What's the best way to scrub it off? I heard brake cleaner might work, but I would like some more advice.
Thanks
What's the best way to scrub it off? I heard brake cleaner might work, but I would like some more advice.
Thanks
2/23/2012 4:26:55 PM
Brake cleaner is what I would use.
2/23/2012 5:15:34 PM
if you have access to a media blaster and 120 grit aluminum oxide that would be the way to go....takes off the rattle can and preps the surface for the next coating.
3/1/2012 9:56:26 AM
I have used Zinsser Power Stripper on a variety of projects. It is the best stripper I have ever used. I wanted to repaint the steel door to my garage because my wife painted it with latex paint and it was coming off in chunks. I put on the Power Stripper, and started to walk away. They claim it works in 10 minutes, and they are not kidding. Before I got 5 feet away, I could hear it sizzling. I took a plastic putty knife and it had stripped the old layers of paint as well as the factory applied primer, all the way to bare steel. They make it in a spray can and a bottle that you brush on. I don't know how well it would work on anodizing, I suspect it won't touch it.
Mike
3/1/2012 10:23:06 AM
Originally Posted By freema22:
I have used Zinsser Power Stripper on a variety of projects. It is the best stripper I have ever used. I wanted to repaint the steel door to my garage because my wife painted it with latex paint and it was coming off in chunks. I put on the Power Stripper, and started to walk away. They claim it works in 10 minutes, and they are not kidding. Before I got 5 feet away, I could hear it sizzling. I took a plastic putty knife and it had stripped the old layers of paint as well as the factory applied primer, all the way to bare steel. They make it in a spray can and a bottle that you brush on. I don't know how well it would work on anodizing, I suspect it won't touch it.
I have used Zinsser Power Stripper on a variety of projects. It is the best stripper I have ever used. I wanted to repaint the steel door to my garage because my wife painted it with latex paint and it was coming off in chunks. I put on the Power Stripper, and started to walk away. They claim it works in 10 minutes, and they are not kidding. Before I got 5 feet away, I could hear it sizzling. I took a plastic putty knife and it had stripped the old layers of paint as well as the factory applied primer, all the way to bare steel. They make it in a spray can and a bottle that you brush on. I don't know how well it would work on anodizing, I suspect it won't touch it.
Mike
This would probably corrode the aluminum.
3/1/2012 8:43:30 PM
Maybe so. Its pretty tough stuff. They also make "aircraft stripper". You would assume that would be safe for aluminum.
Originally Posted By RangeWarrior:
This would probably corrode the aluminum.
Originally Posted By freema22:
I have used Zinsser Power Stripper on a variety of projects. It is the best stripper I have ever used. I wanted to repaint the steel door to my garage because my wife painted it with latex paint and it was coming off in chunks. I put on the Power Stripper, and started to walk away. They claim it works in 10 minutes, and they are not kidding. Before I got 5 feet away, I could hear it sizzling. I took a plastic putty knife and it had stripped the old layers of paint as well as the factory applied primer, all the way to bare steel. They make it in a spray can and a bottle that you brush on. I don't know how well it would work on anodizing, I suspect it won't touch it.
I have used Zinsser Power Stripper on a variety of projects. It is the best stripper I have ever used. I wanted to repaint the steel door to my garage because my wife painted it with latex paint and it was coming off in chunks. I put on the Power Stripper, and started to walk away. They claim it works in 10 minutes, and they are not kidding. Before I got 5 feet away, I could hear it sizzling. I took a plastic putty knife and it had stripped the old layers of paint as well as the factory applied primer, all the way to bare steel. They make it in a spray can and a bottle that you brush on. I don't know how well it would work on anodizing, I suspect it won't touch it.
Mike
This would probably corrode the aluminum.
