How do i get lead paint off.

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/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gifIn the past when ive wanted to remove lead paint ive used a heat gun with a mask!It dosent do a good job.Sanding neither

How can i remove lead primer and lead paint under supermarket paint??I want to varnish!
 
I'm assuming the hull is wood. Ply or planked? If using nitromors is going to be too expensive, if the painetd area is too large, I'd settle for a heat gun or blowtorch and scraper. Thats what I'm going to be doing in March/April and I've got a couple of hundred square feet for attention. Don't forget the mask. Finish with a sander and then start painting. Joy!
 
Remember that you dealing with a toxic substance, i`d be carefull using a sander and lead dust in your lungs is potentialy fatal, so strong gloves and a SUITABLE mask not an ordinary white dust mask is a must, best of luck.
 
I have a good mask but a compleat idiot (Spanish) painted an interior Not everywhere as thankfully their very lazy slapdash) So iwasent enthusiastic about sanding!!It also clogs the paper and even with a wire brush its hard to get off so more paper!!

Even with my dounle filter mask (i look like someone working in a bioligical warfare dept!!)Its not alway 100% when working when the nose itches for example!!

Will nitro moores get lead off????Whats that called in Europe??? id rather use paint striper than heat gun!!

When i scrape it dose come off but so slowly! and the rest left behind dosent sand off with ease!

Good luch with yours!And lets hope Mirelle tells us what we can do!!!??I hope
 
Cheap and effective way is to use broken glass as a scraper. Use serious leather gloves obviously. When the edge gets blunt, break to get a new sharp tool. A glass cutter might help to get a straight edge but old glass is brittle and tends to crack in uncooperative way.
 
If on the outside of the hull - easy! Blowtorch and triangular scraper, out of doors, on a day which is not flat calm and not too breezy either. Have a bucket of water handy and stop to sweep up the scrapings regularly or you will get a conflagration when a burning scraping drops.

If inside the cabin...umm.

There is a recipe involving making a thick paste with caustic soda, slapping this on and leaving it, then scraping off and killing the soda with fresh water, but I've never tried it.

Subject to being very careful about breathing the fumes, I'd use Nitromors, using the trick with kitchen foil (paint an area about a foot square, slap a square of kitchen foil over it to stop it evaporating and come back in a few minutes)
 
Yes to paint over would be the easiest,but i want to varnish!!

I will try to find some nitomors as even with a mask dust gets in.Worse even when useing a sander with vacumm suction dust still gets everywhere.

On another thread with the topic certificate of compatence i was temped to post that whats realy needed is a certificate of wooden boat ownership!!

Up to now ive been lucky all my boats have been modified/maintained by proper shipwrites and carpenters.Untill now! In the past i might not have liked the changes but at least they were well done!The paint is just one more job as i cant stand baby blue beams and cupboards!!

While grumbling about fools and wooden boats ive seen an ideal ditch crawler!It would be perfect (for me)Its about 8m x 3m x 1m has a small dog house nice cabin its abandoned becouse the fool coverd the deck and first foot of the deck with glass matt and resin and rot set in! Just as bad whoever must have had a nil gun for christmas as there are nails in lines every where?Perhaps he tried nailing plastic sheeting to stop the fouling???whatever there are lines of mild steel nails spaces at 1/4 inch??? below the water line.

The other is better an old fishing boat as fishermen are "economic" its had nothing done!!not even a cabin added!! And has a ford 60hp engine sized?? Its a very sound boat and for 100 euros not to expensive??And it can stay where it is for the rest of the year with no extra cost.
 
Not going to drink it i hope, i to own a wooden,boat my first after lots of plastic(easy to fix with resin and mat) 1 steel(easy to fix lots of welding).A lot more satisfing working with something that is natural,also inside as long as not too much is varnised as this can be a bit gloomy and depressing i think,a light colour for the deckheads and bulkheads and perhaps the beams varnished seems to work for me. I need to replace a dinner plate size peice of rotten wood on my foredeck, i think water has leaked in through a loose fairlead and seeped along the layers of ply and stayed there gently rotting away all summer whilst i have been away,as soon as i can slip the boat i can get stuck in, good luck with the fishing boat ,sounds good.
chris.
 
Yes!! My experiments often go wrong!! Now i do everything on the key!!And the firebrigade passby often!!After my heater experiments!!

Today i tried my DIY hot water heater!! To see if it will work thermaly without a pump to walm my bath!!!I tried it on the beach and the firebrigade passed by to ask what it was!!(In case they had to put it out!!)Great people!

Illtry a small patch on drift board form the beach first!!(with lead paint)


Problem with ply is that when its made the layers have gaps where the inner plys dident quite meet!! Thats a problem.As long as your deck is ONLY painted ply ok!When you feel see delamination you can drill the remove the rotten bit and repair before it spreds, luckly ply rot is quite slow and when caught not a problem just a pain!!

Varnished beams can be dull but ill have to paint those anyway for now (white) The cupboards are teakfaced ply!!!!!!!!!
 
My deck is cascovered but sound exept where the water has lifted it, where the wood is good it sticks like .... to a blanket. it only got in through a botched repair by me!!!
 
Mix wallpaper paste with your caustic + water until you get a porrage. It will stick to the surface long enough to work on the paint... just caustic and water will either run off or dry out.
Keep an eye on the job... caustic can make hardwoods go black so be ready to wash it off with copious amounts of cold water.
 
Thats a good idea!! Good wallpaper glue! I used that with Oxalic acid!!Dident think of it with caustic soda!!

I was looking at my cupboards! I suppose i better do that ashore with the bilge drain plug out and a hose!!

Thanks for that ! i might manage to remove the paint without dust!
 
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Remember that you dealing with a toxic substance, i`d be carefull using a sander and lead dust in your lungs is potentialy fatal, so strong gloves and a SUITABLE mask not an ordinary white dust mask is a must, best of luck.

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Absolutely! No sense killing yourself.
 
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