What's the most brutal paintstripper?

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My superstructure is covered with a type of (I assume) deck paint. It's obviously old and has baked as hard as rock. I need some utterly brutal paintstripper to get rid of it.

Are there any brands known to be particularly effective?

Is antifoul stripper especially good as time might be of the essence? Thanks.
 
Nitromors is good stuff, but...

...It eats GRP. There may be others, but the only ones I know that are safe in GRP are the caustic soda based ones like Dilunet. Do keep it away from aluminium like window frames, though - it's very likely to stain them indelibly at best, attack then ferociously at worst.
 
hwmbo said:
My superstructure is covered with a type of (I assume) deck paint. It's obviously old and has baked as hard as rock. I need some utterly brutal paintstripper to get rid of it.
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Don't go for brutal, go for effective. One of the Removalls from www.paint-stripper.co.uk will do the trick. Just a happy customer.
 
hwmbo said:
Has anyone tried using these - I've not seen one before... http://www.paint-stripper.co.uk/perago.htm
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If you're talking about the rotating rubber thing then yes. Seem to remember it cost about £29 a few years ago. Used it for about 5 minutes, during which time it was not all that brilliant. After 5 minutes it was utterly useless. I've still got it in the shed - to remind me that there is no such thing as a miracle paint stripper.
 
Professional paint removal experts have a licence to to buy something very extreme. i forgets the name right now buts its along the lines of AC10 etc, it has a chemical name. Look in yellow pages for paint removal experts, ring one of them and hopefully you will get a friendly guy who will tell you what to do, the most powerfull paint remover available to general public is green can nitromors.

Use nitro like this. Dab on in THICK layers, leave 20 mins, powerwash off, thats right with a powerwasher ! your heavy paint will blast away HONEST.
 
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A good old fashioned trick, apply any old paint stripper, wrap it in cling film, leave for at least 12 hours (cling film stops the solvent evaporating out of the stripper), remove the cling, scrape or wash off the paint- get a good pair of rubber gloves!
 
BE CAREFULL!!!!! I used Nitromors on a fibreglass Reliant Scimitar many years ago and it worked fine. I could leave it on there all day without any problems. HOWEVER, years later, I spilled a dollop on Avocet's white-pigmented gelcoat topsides when working on a rubbing strake and to my horror, the gelcoat started bubbling within about 15 seconds of the Nitromors touching it!
 
The only safe way to do this with any level of control is to use an orbital sander, messy and time comsuming but it's safer.
 
in NL

We used this one (link below) on enamel paint which the previous owner found a great idea to put the name on the stern on lightly sanded gel coat.

After much searching, we found it in the Dutch equivalent of B&Q, called Praxis
http://uk.hg.eu/wizard-shop/index/id/3690/productId/359/removal_of_old_varnish__protective_coatings

It took the enamel paint off in about 5 minutes, so that I could wipe it off and wash with water afterwards. It says that it also attacks 2 pack products - no idea.

That's the strongest stuff I have come across so far.
 
boat paint stripper

we used Blackfriars paint /varnish remover on our aluminium boat which was effective and well priced when shopping around.[£25 approx for one gallon]
Their technical dept was very helpful and i recommend checking suitability with them[01914113146]

Happy stripping
Bacus
 
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