Austin...Aircraft stripper

[LEB Ben]

No...I'm not talking about Stretchmark Sally on your last flight. Rather, I'm planning on spraying down my rims with the stuff. Sounds like it's pretty aggressive. I see autozone sells the stuff in aerosol form now. I really don't want to sand the entire rim by hand...so I'm looking for a short cut. Worth it or not??? Will it dissolve the paint, bubble it up??? Spray and rinse???

 

[Austin]

If you plan on polishing any surfaces after chemically stripping the paint, you'll need to go through a thorough sanding process anyway. I say hit it with the liquid paint stripper (almost like a gel... very aggressive, so use old gloves and respirator) and a scouring pad or scrapper. Then soak the wheel in degreaser, rinse, and get to sanding.

 

[Austin]

http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/d....oap?ck=Search_N0483_-1_-1&pt=N0483&ppt=C0171

 

[kiwi f150]

I've used one of those cheapy hand held sandblasters loaded with baking soda before with good results ...... don't use a large garnet grit or you will spend hours smoothing out the pitted surface that it leaves - i found out the hard way

 

[LEB Ben]

If you plan on polishing any surfaces after chemically stripping the paint, you'll need to go through a thorough sanding process anyway. I say hit it with the liquid paint stripper (almost like a gel... very aggressive, so use old gloves and respirator) and a scouring pad or scrapper. Then soak the wheel in degreaser, rinse, and get to sanding.

Only plan on polishing the faces of the fins...the rest will be dark metallic brown. Then clearing the whole rim.

 

[Austin]

Okay, so perhaps go ahead with the product I linked to, then clean. After that use a scuff pad to roughen up the areas you're going to paint.

Then you have to decide how you want to lay down the paint. Are you going to tape everything off or paint then sand back down what you want polished?

 

[Austin]

Can you give me a picture of the face of the fin? More specifically when the paint will end and the polished surface will begin?

 

[LEB Ben]

Just the flat facing outward on the fin will be polished...the rest of the surfaces are textured anyway.

The plan was to strip it all. Mask off what I wanted to polish. Paint. Polish the flats of the fins. Clear.