Freebee
Well-known member
My son in laws bought a shetland thats got multi coats of thick paint, whats best to strip it off?
best way to strip paint of glass fibre??
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Talbot
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Recommend http://www.paint-stripper.co.uk/removall_paint_stripper_marine.htm slop it on and then remove with a high pressure water wash. If the initial coats are thick enough it just eats its way through the paint. It is then neutralised by the water.
Hardley
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Talbot's recommendation will do the job, but I found the price a bit steep, went for 2.5 litres of Dilunett from rod@shipshaperamsgate.co.uk £26.10 including postage, that was the cheapest price I found after a long search.
billcowan
Member
Try this:
Use a steam wallpaper stripper, with the small shoe they give you for doing alkward bits. about 3" x 5"
Hold it on the paint for 15 seconds at least, this softens ordinairy one pack polyuretane enough to just whip it off with a scraper.
Your better with a really stiff scraper, like a cabinetmakers one, with a square cut edge which you can re-touch from time to time.
One tankfull of steam does about half a square metre, which is all you want to do at a time on a winter afternoon.
Chemical strippers dont work well on twenty coats of old paint - this does.
Use a steam wallpaper stripper, with the small shoe they give you for doing alkward bits. about 3" x 5"
Hold it on the paint for 15 seconds at least, this softens ordinairy one pack polyuretane enough to just whip it off with a scraper.
Your better with a really stiff scraper, like a cabinetmakers one, with a square cut edge which you can re-touch from time to time.
One tankfull of steam does about half a square metre, which is all you want to do at a time on a winter afternoon.
Chemical strippers dont work well on twenty coats of old paint - this does.
Rabbie
New member
Thats exactly how I have just stripped 3 coats off my 24 footer. Slow, - 3 weekends - but much kinder to the GRP than those chemical strippers.
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