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Old 06-18-2006, 02:07 PM
eliasson eliasson is offline
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Default powder coat removal question

Hello,

I searched, but did not find info I'm looking for ( probably a poor search :^) ). In any case, I have two motorcyle wheels ( aluminum ) with the original pwdr coating left in all the difficult spots. I've tried:
- 'aircraft stripper', so named on the spray can
- wire brush on drill, works ok except on hard to reach areas
- sm. wire brush on dremel tool, reaches hard areas but wears down almost immediately :^P
- heat gun, almost no effect
- MAPP gas torch, also almost no effect in reasonable time

I noticed on the Caswell site that a soln. of battery acid can remove plating from aluminum, so my question is, can it also efficiently remove powder coating?

I apologize in advance if this question has been answered, & ask to be pointed to the answer.

TIA,
Anders
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