Now for a pressure tank paint stripper?

[beerman57]

I’m doing one of those 6 gallon tanks with the more squared corners. There are 2 indentations on each short side, what looks like a seam 3/4 of the way up and of course the seam/ridge at the bottom. I remember someone mentioning a stripper from Home Depot, I don’t mind sanding the straight parts but hate seams and the like.

[mr-asa]

Look for any paint stripper that contains methyline chloride. A little bit of it goes a LONG way.

Wear really heavy duty gloves, and do it in a place with a lot of ventilation

[wedgie]

By far, the best paint stripper is a media blast. There are businesses that rent blast booth time to hobbyists for less than it costs for the chemical strippers, and it is way way faster.I am lucky to have access to one at work. When set up right and working correctly, you just wave the nozzle over the part and the paint disappears as if by magic. Fun to use too.

http://ublast.ca/rates/

[chris-p]

Yeah, Im not a fan of chemical strippers either. I ended up getting my own booth. Use it every day. As long as you have a decent compressor, a cheap booth will do.

[Mumbles]

Yeah Beer, I have to recommend bead blasting to. I do have a cabinet at home like Chris does to but I have to admit, you can’t beat the commercial ones in town for a dollar a minute! You bring in your clean and degreased parts, put on the gloves and hearing protection and let ‘er fly! You can remove a lot of paint in fifteen-twenty minutes with one of these units!

http://www.blastityourself.ca/

Some beaded motors from a few years ago.

[billy-j]

I think if the tank is not rusty but needs to be stripped I would use paint stripper over abrasive blast because blasting would remove the plating on the tank. Bill,

[beerman57]

I just need an effective paint stripper for the hard to sand places on a pressure tank. I did the small Merc tank with an orbital sander, but it was in nice shape. You can’t sand a seam very well and sand/bead blasting would be overkill.

[Mumbles]

Hey Beer, aircraft quality paint stripper works best if you want to go that route but beading is cleaner and probably cheaper in the long run especially if you are doing more than one tank at the same time!

[beerman57]

So what aircraft stripper? I’m small time, work out of a single car garage with my 13′ Feathercraft, washer & dryer, at least 5-6 motors, yard stuff/tools, chemicals, my work bench is my truck tailgate backed up near my garage. When hurricanes come, boat goes out of garage, truck goes in and backs up against garage door.

[Mumbles]

Just go to your local auto or paint supply store and tell them you want aircraft paint stripper. It’s more powerful than regular paint stripper and it will even remove dried out dead flies from your screen door! Better yet, you don’t even need to own a plane or heli to buy the stuff!

Speaking of tailgate workbenches, you might have noticed that lots of the pics I post are taken on my mobile tailgate workbench, built by Ford. After putting a few inches of lift in the truck, it’s now at the perfect height so my belly rests on it for stability as I lean over working on carbs and stuff.

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