[Public-List] Stripping Bottom Paint - Any Experience with Soy/Chemical Strippers?

[John Birch]

We successfully used Interlux PintOff for Fiberglas (make sure it is the 
Glass version and not for Aluminium) Needs 20-25o C weather minimum to kick. 
Not sure if it is still available.


> laserandy at aol.com wrote:
>> So with the rudder well in hand, I have an evening and part of a weekend 
>> before the new paint goes on early next week.? Our existing bottom paint 
>> is pretty patchy.? Ann has been removing the obviously loose stuff fairly 
>> easily with a scraper, which leads me to wonder how well attached the 
>> rest of it is.? Also, with so many medium size patches of bare gelcoat 
>> vs. years of accumulated bottom paint where we haven't taken it off, the 
>> surface is going to be fairly irregular when we repaint.
>>
>> I'm not particularly keen to sand all of it off, and the price I got for 
>> soda-blasting it is high enough that I'd just leave it as is.? So the 
>> question, has anyone successfully used any of the chemical strippers, 
>> particularly the soy ones which sound so much friendlier?
>>
>> Would we be insane to even think of attempting this in just a few hours 
>> (a couple to paint the stuff on, a couple for it to work, and a couple to 
>> whisk away the paint swiftly and easily with a paint scraper)?
>>
>> I searched the archives and couldn't find anything (although I may have 
>> been using the wrong terms).
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
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