Ok,

I've been recommended by many on here to use aircraft paint stripper to remove powder coating off of my HX wheels.

I'm looking at a Canadian product from a company Napier. It's called Hydro Stripper 500 (or Removal 510). It's $48 a gallon. Any one use this product? Is this a reasonable price? Do you think it will work!?

Thanks,
Keith

 

I've seen people just throw the powder coated parts in a fire and burn it off.

 

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I live in an apartment.. So thats out...
any other ideas?

 

Anything at the hardware store that has methylene chloride in it should work. I did some metal parts yesterday and they turned out nice. Go to the paint section of the store and talk to someone there or start reading the labels. I bought some that was "brushable" it has more of a gel consistency to it. You can find it in a thin liquid or even in a can to spray on.

 

get the one in the spray-can....found in autozone/advanced autoparts, etc...

and if u have a high pressure washer, that would help alot in stripping

 

Sand Blast ! Glass beed blast ! That should work also

 

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I brought them to a few shops. Glass won't remove the powder. The shop was worried that sand would damage the soft aluminum.

 

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Same thing happened with me. The guy at the powder coating place refered me to a furniture restoration place that worked with metals. There they tanked the rims for a few hours in some sort of solution which took most of the stuff.

But for the original poster, if the HX rims are stock, jasco or air craft stripper would work just fine.

 

Go to home depot and in the paint section they sell a kleen-strip brand paint stripper thats $20 a gallon, in a gel format. Theres different ones, get the one that works in 5 minutes or whatever, i think its a orange can. It'll work. You dont want to burn it off if its an aluminum rim, chemical stripping is the way to go, or blasting it with walnut/plastic media.