Chemicly Stripping Ontario's blade coating

[Hickory n steel]

I've got a 498 on the way and am thinking about stripping the black finish off.
My Go-to rattle can stripping agent is JASCO but all i have right now is some Citristrip and the local hardware is currently out and, Has anyone tried using Citristrip to remove the blade coating on an Ontario knife ?
I don't want to waste it, but if it'll work I can avoid the 30 min trip to Pick up some of the good stuff at HD or Walmart.

 

[Revolvergeek]

Citristrip worked perfectly on a couple Rat folders that I removed the black coating off of.

 

[Hickory n steel]

Citristrip worked perfectly on a couple Rat folders that I removed the black coating off of.

I suppose that's a good sign, at least as long as Ontario uses the same costing on the knives they actually manufacture themselves.

 

[Hickory n steel]

Found out that this coating is a sinc phosphate, and no kind of paint stripper is going to work.

I'll have to figure something else out or forget stripping it.

 

[AntDog]

Sandpaper works.

 

[Hickory n steel]

I'll have to get some pictures tomorrow, but I was actually able to wire wheel the coating off, I guess it wasn't as tough as I thought.

 

[Hickory n steel]

Here it is with the handle thinned out and treated with some Obenaufs, and the zinc phosphate removed from the blade.