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My coupe was painted with a unknown product. The previous owner said that she bought 5 gallons of paint at the Boeing Surplus store in Seattle and painted the airplane with it. It was a two part product requiring mixing before application. (Epoxy??). I have tried unsuccessfully to remove the paint and have tried seven different products and have been able to only soften the top surface let alone remove any to bare metal. Kleen Kut aircraft paint remover allowed me to get down to primer after four applications in a one foot square area. I was ready to ship it out and have it Blasted. Lynn Nelsen posted a message about a product called RemovAll stripper and I decided to try it. I looked it up on the Net and found out after a bit of research that it is manufactured by Napier in Canada and is distributed in the US under several different names. RemovAll is the trade name for Napier's SV-35pma stripper that is distributed by TURCO distributors. The same product is sold by ICI paints as Hydrostrip 502 and was available locally. The local Napier sales rep. told me that Sherwin Williams will be carrying it in the very near future. It is expensive, and I paid $32.00 for a gallon of hydrostrip at ICI. It is a heavy bodied product that uses Hydrogen Peroxide as the active ingredient. It works by penetrating the paint to the aluminum where it reacts as a catalyst to create oxygen that forces the paint away from the surface it is adhering to. It is shipped with NO hazardous material charges and it is not classed as a Hazardous material and does not affect plastics or rubber. In fact it is recommended for stripping Fiberglass cars and rubber bumpers on cars. It is recommended that it be sprayed on. I used my HVLP spray gun. I have two, one suction gun and the other a gravity fed gun. It would not flow from the suction gun but the gravity gun worked great. How did it work.?? I started at the tail end and sprayed a coat on one side to the rivet seam at frame 'F' and then went to the other sided and started at the tail end and continued to frame 'F' to complete the empenage. When I walked around to look at the first side, I was amazed to see the paint falling off in great big sheets, right down to the aluminum. I let it work for half an hour and as I don't have a pressure washer I got out my shop vacuum and sucked the paint off the airplane. I then used a hose and scotchbright pad to clean up any residue. Total time to strip the empenage including the half hour wait was one hour and 15 minutes. Get this, No goggles, No respirator, No smell, No burns on bare skin and my HVLP spray gun looks brand new. It removed all the paint residue from the inside of the gun wherever the stripper touched. The paint in the vacuum after it dried is just that, Dried paint and no more hazardous that if it was still on the airplane. The only easier way to strip the airplane would be to apply this stuff all over the aircraft at the airport then start the engine and blow off the residue with the prop wash. :-) Sorry for the long post but I just had to share this. Thanks Lynn for letting us in on a great product. Rich Blair N99997 4J6 St. Marys, Georgia ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiLm.aVzvvT Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
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