Stripping paint?

[Bob Ajob]

Stripping Paint?

Nitromors is the only way!!!
Comes off way easier than carefully brushing it off with an angle grinder attachment, which is a pain as I can't get the brush of my ginder now that I don't need it!

Using Nitromors is well simple, just remember to wear goggles and your wife's best marigolds, and keep some fresh water (hose pipe) to hand for when you splash yourself - it burns.

As soon as the gallery will let me upload pics, will post them up

[Les Henson]

Yep, Nitromors is good, but as you say - stingy burny if you get it on your skin. Don't rinse with hot water either, as the fumes make your eyes water and nose sting. I used it to prep the bonnet for catflap.

[The Landy Guy]

where can i get some Nitromors?

[Bob Ajob]

Hardware stores.

B&Q seem to have it on special offer, my Green tin (Litre / two?) cost only £3 something, whereas last time I saw it in Homebase, it was £15

Go check B&Q quick before they realise...
In fact, I must get another tin...

Make sure you get the green, not yellow, Green washes off with cold water, Yellow does not!

Don't forget to buy some goggles too, you don't want that in your eyes!

[The Landy Guy]

jeeze i will

and do you just paint it on?

[Bob Ajob]

It's got instructions on the back of the tin, but basically:

Do this outside, not in your garage (bad fumes).
Get your hose pip near by, with the water on, and just off at the pointy end.
Also get a bucket of water and a sponge.

Pour some in the lid, stipple it on with an old paintbrush - I used a 1 1/2" brush as it's what I picked up first.
It says to wait 20 minutes without letting it dry out, so watch it bubble up, and keep stippling over the top of what's there so it doesn't dry out. You'll find paint coming off onto your brush, but don't worry about that. You probably won't need to wait 20 mins, as you'll find the POs never rubbed down the paint, so it actually comes off rather well.

Work in small areas, in what ever pattern suits you, you'll see what works as you go along. Scrape after the paint has bubbled, buy yourself a putty knife, and a thin (2" ish) scraper, scraper useful for wide bits, putty knife has a small straight bit, and a curved bit which is useful for stubborn bits.

Don't push too hard with the scrapers or you may scrape down to bare metal.

It's good fun, and gets fast results, way better than angle-brushing!!

For the door strips, and windscreen surrounds, consider an old hard plastic kitchen spatular so you don't scratch the galvanising underneath, I've found the galvanised strips are actually quite well preserverd, or look it anyway :)

Once you've done a patch, it's worth wiping down the area with the wet sponge so the remover doesn't react anymore with the undercoat.

[Bob Ajob]

Done carefully, it may actually save you re-painting your landrover - it will me ;)

[The Landy Guy]

coool cheers mate

[Bob Ajob]

Some piccies now, finally been able to upload to the gallery.

Before - note the painted windscreen surround. In fact, note that everything is painted! Even the bloomin washer jets!! Grrr!


After most of the fron there done by angle-grinder with brush attachment, not recommended (but I had to try it). Couple of reasons why not, takes too much paint off, it's slow, makes you hands tingle, the brush attachment gets stuck on your grinder!



Windscreen surround is a bit fiddly. I can't tell you how many layers of paint are on the roof!! I'll count them when I get to the roof again


Aaah - progress. I actually started here with the Nitromors, more fun in a large area, best picture to show last for progress though :)

[Devon-Rover]

Looking nice!

I'll vouch to say that the prolonged inhalation of nitromor's leaves you feeling very lightheaded.  :oops:

[The Landy Guy]

well looks like the paint jobs gonna have to wait i got a shot gearbox to remove and find a new one to be fitted

[James.Harwood]

random orbital sander works well, got most of the bonnet stripped in 15 mins.

[Range Rover Blues]

Doesn't the paint react if you have treated the panel in Nitromors then?   I want to tidy up my Sankey but there is so much NATO paint on it I was thinking of just slapping more on with a brush.

[Bob Ajob]

Nitromors is funny stuff, it tends to react with the top layers of paint, and goes deeper depending on how long you leave, and how much you keep on adding. It can quite often get to a very old layer of paint and not react with it as much as the top layers as it's been there a long time so takes more Nitromors to react, don't know how this works though...

If you're going to slap more on anyway, it won't hurt to try a bit first I reckon

[Range Rover Blues]

Worth a try as I don't really want to go through the original alumium primer where it's still there.

[screwy]

STOP!

Before you all rush and buy Nitromors, there is an alternative!

There is a water based paint stripper called HomeStrip Paint and Varnish Remover. Being water based there are no horrible fumes, and safer to use. It is also better for the environment 'man' not that I give a rats about the last bit!

More on their site here:

http://www.homestrip.co.uk/Home-BaseA.htm#

Does the same as Nitromors but without the nasty stuff. I have used this product on a wall at home and it successfully stripped 6+ layers of vinyl emulsion (waterproof), ordinary emulsion and oil based paints. Worked better the longer it was left, didnt smell awful and didnt kill my paintbrush! Easy to rinse off after and is a gel so goes on vertical surfaces easily.

I admit I haven't tried on car panels yet, but would be interested to see what happens. Got to be worth a try?

[Bob Ajob]

There are two different types of Nitromors, Green tin, Yellow tin. Green tin comes off with water (what I got), Yellow tin doesn't. Green tin has the consistency of wall paper paste, so does stay put on vertical panels, just best to not let it dry out i.e. apply more up to how long you wish to leave it - do some test patches - longer you leave it, deeper it goes. Green not that bad for fumes, just burns on bare skin, though leaves no mark once washed off with cold water. Yellow tin I wouldn't touch without a nuclear suit...

HomeStrip - Cheers mate :)
I had a look at the stockists, was going to say there's not one near me, though they stock it at all Focus DIY stores, and there is one of them near me. So, when I run out of Nitromors, I'll go and price it up ;)

When I get round to finishing the current tin of stripper I have, and have started with the next of HomeStrip, will let you know if it burns too  :shock: I'm bound to splash myself...