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removing overspray

(quoted from post at 05:18:33 02/21/10) Rag and lacquer thinner to scrub it off. If its old paint it may take a while.
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That's what we use. It works great for the first week or so after painting. It should come off for you with some elbow grease.
 
Here is a new one guys and it works great!! I got it from a car restoration guy, and it will take spray paint off a new truck if desired. (Accident with my 3 year old last summer, Well more like son saw dad painting and wanted to change the color on dad's truck)

BUt anyway, Ovencleaner, ask the wife for some spray on oven cleaner and it takes it right off with out removing orginal finish at all.

IT worked great and blew my mind.

Matt
 
(quoted from post at 08:00:13 02/21/10) Here is a new one guys and it works great!! I got it from a car restoration guy, and it will take spray paint off a new truck if desired. (Accident with my 3 year old last summer, Well more like son saw dad painting and wanted to change the color on dad's truck)

BUt anyway, Ovencleaner, ask the wife for some spray on oven cleaner and it takes it right off with out removing orginal finish at all.

IT worked great and blew my mind.

Matt
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We would use it at the ag retailer to remove the lettering off trucks. We found that EasyOff works the best. Spray it on and let it sit for ten min and most will come right off. Some of the trucks that had been lettered a really long time took a little REALLY light steel wool action.


BTW, I would try a rag only with thinner/EasyOff before I tried the steel wool.
 
So many ideads for this, Oven cleaner works really good for removing paint. The other option would be Goof-Off which can be had at homedepot. The other one is gasoline and then laquor thinner
 
Well, if it's chrome, you can use some enamel reducer or laquer thinner to get the bulk off then finish with some #000 or #0000 steel wool. You can use the steel wool dry or with some car polish and it cleans very well and puts a nice shine on it. If you're cleaning a painted surface maybe you can get by with some rubbing compound and a buffer. Now if you want to knock down some orange peel, you can do a wet sand with 2000 grit sand paper and buff it with compound and a power buffer for a high gloss.
 
I'd avoid oven cleaner. That is an old solution from the 60's and 70's That stuff usually has lye in it and is very caustic and strong. It can damage finishes. Plus if you're going to use it on a surface to be painted, it gets in the pores of the metal and will blister the paint later. Not saying that it wouldn't work, it's just not the best solution these days.
 
Use 0000 Extra Fine Steel Wool.Body man showed me on chrome and mirrors 20 years ago.Works good for taking dried bug juice off your bumper too
 
I use oven cleaner as a grease remover on tractors as the first step in my paint removal process. It will remove some of the paint. I would NEVER use it on overspray. At the least it will dull the underlying paint. Sodium hydroxide (lye) is one of the most caustic materials used as a cleaner.
 
(quoted from post at 17:05:32 02/21/10) I use oven cleaner as a grease remover on tractors . . . At the least it will dull the underlying paint.
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It will also eat the serial number plates and any other aluminum off in short order.
 
I recently bought some dollar a can oven cleaner from dollar general. Sprayed the flow divider and pilot valve to get years of oil, grease,a dirt gunk that had accumulated. Left it on overnight. It took off years of old paint in chips here and there. That made for a mess of paint chips to deal with in cleaning it and putting it back together. Everytime I handled a piece, paint chips would flake off.

Next time I won't use it or else leave it on long enough to strip off all the paint.

It didn't take much paint off of the cast pieces. Took more paint off of the mild steel parts. The end caps on the pilot valve are aluminum and it took most of it off down to bare aluminum except around the bolts.
 
Guys when this happened to my truck the deal is the one who used Oven cleaner, they did not sprayed it on and live it sit, they spryed it one wiped the over spay off rinsed and then buffed. It id not take orginal paint off and worked great. Asked a auto painter about it and he says if you use it right works fine, he did state you should not leave it on for long periods of time.

I think you need to experament and find what you like the best. I have used a little elbow greese and hours of scrubbing which would have gotten me the same results. If i scrub hard enough and long enough you would damage the orginal paint as well. It comes back to personal preference and using you head a little bit.
 
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