I have had very bad results with baking soda. Yes it cleans the metal but
the fine powder residue gets into EVERYTHING. The only way to avoid this is
to remove all the sheet metal and blast it as separate pieces.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Lawrence <billlawrence@hotmail.com>
To: gerrybraz@voyager.net <gerrybraz@voyager.net>; simon@mondes.com
<simon@mondes.com>; vintage-race@autox.team.net
<vintage-race@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, February 08, 1999 1:01 PM
Subject: RE: Paint stripping suggestions wanted
>Simon,
>
>Strip ease is popular among aircraft restorers. Brake fluid also
>removes paint. Blindly blasting soda, sand, walnut shells, plastic
>beads may distort the panels. Care should be taken with any method
>you choose.
>
>Bill Lawrence
>>
>>Don't know about dry ice blasting, but blasting with a baking soda
>media
>>cleans steel clean as a whistle and doesn't distort the metal. Leaves
>a nice
>>satin finish that doesn't oxidize as quickly as sand.
>>
>>If view of the thin skin, I'd suggest to that blaster that he lower
>pressure
>>or back away further from the piece.
>>
>>
>
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