Aircraft striper

[Mike Adams]

One of my buddys just dropped off his tins for a blast of new color. Knowing that there is three paint jobs stacked on each other and striping to bare metal is a must becauce of the milage factor. A couple of years ago he was in a crash with the bike and there is body work under the paint. Should this be a concern when using the striper?, as im not really wanting to open a can of worms. The other times I used aircraft striper it was on tins without filler and all was fine, can I be that lucky again?. I have a bad feeling about it.

[Hi Rise]

yup it's a concern.If there is any body filler under the paint,it will definately soften it.Being an aircraft engineer for 32 years I have had some rather unpleasant experiences with this stuff.You may want to think about media blasting,soda, plastic pellets or wallnut shells.You could glass bead it but don't use silica sand,that will really remove the filler material.Hope this helps.

[Airbrushbycurto]

My friend Jeff uses Aircraft Stripper and it will take off the body filler
as well as the paint.Also the above methods will also remove some of the
bodyfiller but most will stay but you will have to redo some of the filler work
tomake it straight and smooth again.Either way you look at it you will
have to do bodywork.If this is not your area of expertice, i would leave it
to a person who does bodywork.I don't do bodywork well so if the motorcycle
tins that I custom paint need bodywork,I farm out the bodywork to Jeff.
I had to strip some stuff with Aircraft stripper and I know it removes just
about everthing, and if you get it on your skin it burns:eek:
Goodluck with getting all that paint off without messing up the
previous bodyfiller work.

[DocCyber]

yea what everyone else said

But here is a work around in the future when there is a lot of body work....use a polyester primer called Mortons Eliminator.......after your body work is done.bury it with this stuff.....why........you can use zip strip on top and not worry about it eating the polyester.

all my body work is buried with this stuff.........i do some extensive body modifications and have had to repaint..........pull out the stripper.......eat down to the polyester......shoot another coat of polyester on top......paint.

zip strip is the best way to go when stripping delicate body work........blasting will cause you doing the body work over or at least re shaping some areas.......stripping assures you keep the shape structure...but you have to use this eliminator.

this wont help now...but eliminator has been a great tool for those of us who do exotic body work....twisted fram rails...3D flames.....molding tanks to frames......molding flaire kits......just thought id mention that

[Mike Adams]

Thankx for the insight guys , Doc that is some a real asset for future jobs.

Paint is a passion

MKP