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Will 91% isopropyl alcohol remove floquil paint from a shell? I had 2 shells primed and painted with floquild enamels. they unfortunately had some bad area's that got worse when I tried to fix them. So I am left with stripping the paint and starting over. But I want to make sure I'll be able to remove the paint later tonight without issues.
Especially if it hasn't been on there that long it should. You can also use brake fluid that works great too. Try the alcohol, either it will work or it won't but I'm pretty sure that it will. I don't know exactly how long it will take but I would think that fairly fresh paint it should come off pretty quick. Good luck!
Not wanting to start a flaming war or anything, just passing on the knowledge that I have from all of the years or stripping and painting shells.
Here's some of the problem with a lot of the different strippers that people use. Plastic gets soft and deforms the shell, plastic gets brittle due to the chemicals used then breaks when drilling detail parts on or installing handrails etc. Some of these strippers have been know to even melt away details on the shells. IMHO, media blasting is the safest, fastest, cleanest way to strip a shell. If your using baking soda, do it outside the garage, won't hurt anything and clean up is easy.
Steve, run it at 40-50 psi then, or as high as it'll go. I use the 80 gallon compressor in the garage @ 120 psi for media blasting. Takes everything off in one pass and doesn't damage the shell at all.
sounds good. Baking soda is good correct or is it baking powder? 2 days in the dip and it did crap, nothing. Whatever came off on day one was it, nothing more.
Anyway i drained my stripping bucket and let the models dry. Paint started to flake and chip, I was able to get a little more off but the blaster is coming out tonight possibly.
well i gave it a go with the air eraser. It kept clogging on me and was driving me nuts. I was able to do some removal with it. But shells still have paint them. I think i have no choice at this time to a chemical.
Jerome, what kind of media blaster do you use? The one im using is from harbour freight and only goes to 65psi. I keep having to clean out the nozzle on the front that unscrews and the pipe the baking soda travels down. Any recommendations?
