Paint stripper....

thrashingcows

thrashingcows

Drowning deep in my sea of loathing...so I'm
Well I bought a 68 dual snorkle air cleaner from a docker over on the c-body site I visit....Thanks again Charlie!!

So it had a few coats of paint on it after 40 years... :doh: ... and needed a clean up before I could repaint it. So I went down to my local jobber and bought a $10 can of spray on paint stripper. I followed the directions, rough up the painted surface with 80 grit paper then spray on and let sit 15 minutes or so then use scrapper to remove paint.

Well after the first application...not much happened...couple small spots lifted and that was it. So clean it off and proceed to do it again...this time...same damn thing.:mad:

Well now I'm a little cheesed since I used up almost 3/4 of the can and I have almost nothing to show for my $10 investment. So I get to thinking how I can strip this on the cheap....Hmmm brake fluid strips paint and is cheap. ;)

So I set up some cardboard and put the aircleaner on a big wood block, grap the brake fluid and a paint brush and give it a good slathering.... after about 30 minutes I gave it another coating. Then I had to head out of town for work and when I got back last night after 3 days away and it was bubbling and pealing like crazy.

I took it outside and scrapped about 90% of the paint off with ease and then had to spend another hour or two getting into all the small tight spots with a small screwdriver.

So when all was said and done it looks great and I probably only used a dollar or two worth of brake fluid and got better resultas then the $10 can!!
 
i heard its unpossible to paint the metal after brake fluid was spilled on it. But that could just be a rumour.
 
I lucked out with the brush-on stuff I picked up at the home store. It was less than 20 bucks for a gallon. It will take factory (76 chrysler) paint and about a third of the primer on the first pass. It eats foam brushes and ruins good ones but that's the price of admission.

Makes hella mess when it finds bondo. :eek:

remind me to write down the name this afternoon.
 
brake clean the holy hell out of it and your ok and use and etching primer

however there an orange substance they sell now as a brush on striper that is non toxic.....or so they say..that shit eats paint and then some....someone told me it was plastic safe tooo...dont EVER use it on plastic...save the brake fluid for plastic unless its a lense type platic
 
Well brake fluid cleans up with water so I just washed it good with water adn a bit of simple green and sprayed the cheap black rattle can paint on. Only had a couple small areas that tried to fish eye but put the coats on lightly and all was well.
 
You should have used Dupli-Color's excellent black-wrinkle paint, after a few baths of brake cleaner. The black-wrinkle finish, correct or not, looks phenomenal.
 
Dr.Jass said:
You should have used Dupli-Color's excellent black-wrinkle paint, after a few baths of brake cleaner. The black-wrinkle finish, correct or not, looks phenomenal.
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You are correct on that, had the dual snorkle with black wrinkle on my 68 Coronet...I will probably re-do the air cleaner this winter in the black wrinkle.
 
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