Getting Your Paint Off

[Netherking]

i wanna get all the paint off my T-Rex and sand it down. respray sometihng nice.

what do you use? just sandpaper or are there some smelly chemicals?

harry

[Danny Kearns]

Nitromorse or caustic soda - sandpaper - wet and dry - Hose pipe - clean it - Dry it.

Then get spraying.

Dan............................

[Barbra]

for a frame i'm gonna go out on the limb and say that caustic soda is better.

[Hendrix]

I use a bit that fits on my drill, spins, and takes it off.

That's used for the major bits...

..for the rest I use Paint Stripped - but god danm it, wear gloves! or you wont have and skin on your hand!!

and a bucket of water =)

[Gavyn.]

caustic soda for a t rex i think if its anodised?

[Ryan.]

im thinking of spraying my t-pro and just wondering if a need to strip the paint first? or can i just spray over the original colour??

ryan

[Hendrix]

im thinking of spraying my t-pro and just wondering if a need to strip the paint first? or can i just spray over the original colour??

ryan

Strip it down bare, of the paint doesn't have anything to lay on, and chips off easily =)

[moza]

use abrasives, like a wire brush on a drill then wire wool then wet and dry, you will want a slightly rough finish for the paint to key into.

MOZA

[Waddy]

please don’t use caustic soda for getting paint off, if you mix it too strong it will eat into your frame and weaken it!!, im talking from experience, i put some onza vp pedal cages into caustic soda to see if it would take the paint off, it did take patches of paint off, but it then got under the paint and corroded the aluminium , they are now about 1mm thick!!, super light lol, just use nitromorse (i think the green can is slightly better than the yellow, the yellow is for household paints like emulsion ect) and either some wire wool, or other abrasives

[sapu]

just go to your local paint shop and ask for...i dont know how its called in english...its a liquid that remove paint....and its cheapo around 5 quid.u just aply that on the freme and the paint stips off

[Hendrix]

Paint Stripper, that#s what it's called.

And you have to be 21 to purchase it! - had to get my neighbour to buy it for me

[RicH_87]

nowlt wrong with nitromors imo. its messy yes, but it does the job.

just make sure you keep putting it on...

i also recommend you have a wirebrush drill attachment handy, and possibly a power hose.

* put nitromors on using a paintbrush

*leave it to do it's thing

*keep putting more on if it looks to be drying out

*power hose it all down so you can see what's going on

*add more nitromors where applicable

*powerhose again (just use a wet cloth if you haven't got a good hose)

*get the wirebrush drill out (dremel if you're posh) and just go over all the bits that are left/welds/corners

*wipe it all down again, possibly with a de-greaser.

*you should now have a loverly smooth polished surface, which you can either lacquer up, or paint.

my super top tip: do it somewhere, where you don't mind getting crap on everything (i'm talking everywhere). put sheets down or something, because the tiny paint flakes come at you by the billion.

also wear old shoes. my corey martinez shoes are now a special edition black and white cow skin edition.