The Rover-Landers of BC

You poor bastard! ;)

The paint is why I say "you poor bastard" :lol:

I'd only easy way I've seen a military rover stripped is plastic blasting, left the truck bright and clean with even the rubber and plastic bits looking good but it did cost the guy over $1000 to do it. The other way is to chem strip it but that can be nasty to do. Sand blasting will warp the crap out of the alum body so don't try that, glass bead blasting warps them to.

Easiest thing to do is just paint it like the army does and give it a new coat of latex once an year, you can count the layers like the rings on a tree ;)

I'll know once you have a good way of doing it sorted out for me ;)

I'd like to plastic blast but I might just chem strip it or may be just sand it down.

I have a militry fender sitting in my back yard and the sun and snow seems to be naturaly stripping it quite well, but its a slow process .

Hi nashorn,
I found a good brand paint stripping solution worked well on military paint. Brush it on thick, leave it on twice as long as recommended on the tin, use a hard plastic scraper. Paint peeled off like a hot knife through butter. Some areas needed a second application but eventualy it came down to bare aluminum fairly easily. It still took 1/2 hr per sq foot. Make sure to wear gloves & eye protection!

good luck

Andy

Didn't Ivor get a soda blaster for this purpose? It would probably work well too.

Someone I just met, just went through this and used furniture stripper. Thye said they needed a few applications, but it was not too bad.

Hi Dan

Hey, nice to meet you. I was in GP on Sunday and saw your rover heading south past GP college... looked like it was really moving!

As far as stripping goes I'd make a couple of suggestions:

First get some Endura paint stripper from your local autoparts store. It is potent and designed for auto type paint - you can use a pressure washer to remove the paint after the striiper has had some time to work.

A second thought is to try some of those plastic (not metal or alloy) stripping wheels for angle grinders (stay away from metal brushes as they can contaminate the alloy and cause problems under the paint in the future).

I`d be cautious with any abrasive blasting as the body alloy is soft and will pit terribly.

Something I have seen work well on the heavy bits of paint is using a well worn hacksaw blade as a scraper.

Welcome to roverlanders - nice to meet you! :)

Rob
Ladysmith, BC
(formerly from Peace River)

Check past posts. If I remember rigkt there is a company in Vancouver that produces a product that you brush on and is enviromentaly safe to use. The aircraft industrie is using it to remove the paint from there planes. If you can't find it on this site, try a Google search. :D

That would be from Napier Environmental Technologies, and their Metal Paint Stripper or RemoveALL 510 is what you are thinking of.