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RE: Paint stripping suggestions wanted

To: gerrybraz@voyager.net, simon@mondes.com, vintage-race@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Paint stripping suggestions wanted
From: "Bill Lawrence" <billlawrence@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 12:23:55 PST
Simon,

Strip ease is popular among aircraft restorers.  Brake fluid also 
removes paint.  Blindly blasting soda, sand, walnut shells, plastic 
beads may distort the panels.  Care should be taken with any method 
you choose. 

Bill Lawrence
>
>Don't know about dry ice blasting, but blasting with a baking soda 
media
>cleans steel clean as a whistle and doesn't distort the metal. Leaves 
a nice
>satin finish that doesn't oxidize as quickly as sand.
>
>If view of the thin skin, I'd suggest to that blaster that he lower 
pressure
>or back away further from the piece.
>
>


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