Coating removal

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Peter La

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I did some work today and decided to post a thread about it since their had been questions before as to if the green and desert coatings are as easy to get off as the black crinkle. The SFNO and CP JABA were the victims in this demonstration.

I used Circa 1850 and it works amazingly, you can see the coating drip off in front of you, revealing the INFI metalic goodness that some of use love.

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I used a paintbrush to apply a thick coating of this syrup like liquid to the jungle green coating.

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Within two minutes, the coating was dripping off the blade. You can actually watch the stuff do its thing. Pretty cool, actually.

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A few minutes later, the steel was starting to come out from under its green shell.

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Almost done, the coating is slipping off the blade.

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Here is what is left of the coating, a pile of what looks like an oiled up garbage bag.

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And were done. It is a little rough and grayer than in the picture. I have to get some metal polish and get to work!

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Here is a pic of the CP JABA. The CP JABA had a desert coating under the green and it came off just as easily. The CP JABA was already shiny under the coating but the SFNO was rough and gray.

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And a family of stripped INFI.

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very cool. Man, just dont get that stuff near a nice cars paint.
 
Cool !!

Great job and good post.

most of my users are already satin or BB, but when its time to strip the DABA or the HD I'll Use your method.

Cool post, Thanks !!!

Looks like Circa 1850 works better than your mom's finger nail polish remover :eek:
 
Awesome job Peter! That Circa 1850 looks like it works way better than the stuff I've been useing, Jasper I think.

They really look good. :thumbup:



And since no one has said it yet... Sorry you ruined your knives, yada, yada, yada, they worth nothing now, yada, yada, yada, I'll help you out, yada, yada, $20.00.

:D ;)
 
NNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not OD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 :(

Can we get a shot of your lungs? :D

Be careful with that stuff.
 
Ouch :eek: :eek:

It does seem a shame to take a perfectly good "greenie" and strip it. I just like them as such and unless in really bad shape I guess I would not do this - but hey - what ever twirls the top.

For me I like them green. :D

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I bet Porkerson is just LIVID:mad: :mad: :mad:

You know him and his green fetish!!!!

Of course it's not anything like my TAN fetish:p :p
 
Does that stuff hurt the Micarta Scales? Seems like something that strong might hurt them.
 
Great pix, but I too can't wrap my brain around stripping versions that are fewer in number rather than selling or trading into a black/black version.

Strange results with the JABA though man....green over tan.....:thumbup:
 
bigdog said:
Does that stuff hurt the Micarta Scales? Seems like something that strong might hurt them.
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I wondered the same thing. I had used acetone with no ill effects on canvas micarta but this one had paper micarta. They were uneffected by the Circa 1850.

SethMurdoc, I don't think so. :confused:

The green is a nice finish but it already had some coating scuffs so I did not feel I effected the value of the knife much. Once I polish it up, I am not going to use it as the other SFNO is my main user. (I may decide to sell it to fund my paintball fetish in a few months.) I really like the satin blades, I can't really explain why. I think it is because I do not have to worry about the coating being damaged if there is none there to begin with.

On the CP JABA, the clip point is much more pronounced when the coating is gone.
 
Is there any evidence that the green was ever there around the micarta, or did this stuff get all of it? Also, will this stuff take off the black crinckle coat too?
 
Since this is a liquid, it drips into the crevices around the micarta and yes, it completely gets rid of the green. I am positive it would get off the black crinkle.
 
:confused: Peter, do I see the Busse logo on the SFNO? I was wondering whether or not it would come off with the coating, so is it etched through the coating and onto the blade?
 
Peter, Skunk once posted something about liquid strippers possibly affecting the coating under the handle slabs, thus loosening them. Do you see any evidence of this?
 
MikeH said:
Peter, Skunk once posted something about liquid strippers possibly affecting the coating under the handle slabs, thus loosening them. Do you see any evidence of this?
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I doubt that this could ever happen. The handles are glued and riveted in place. There is no way a stripper liquid is going to wick itself in between and remove anything. There just isn't enough area or oxygen there.
 
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