Homemade paint stripper for 1055 carbon steel?

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ghostbravo

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Im looking to strip the paint of of my cold steel trail hawk but I dont have any paint stripper does anyone know of a homemade paint stripper to save me a couple dollars?
 
Jasco....premium paint and epoxy stripper. 6 bucks for a large aerosol can. Spray it down and 15 minutes later the finish peels off like magic. Best stuff on the market.
 
I dont want to buy paint stripper I want it homemade, I realize it would be easier to buy a can thats not what I want I need a home remedy, also dot 3 fluid didnt do much
 
ghostbravo said:
I dont want to buy paint stripper I want it homemade, I realize it would be easier to buy a can thats not what I want I need a home remedy, also dot 3 fluid didnt do much
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This doesnt make sense to me. Was the Dot3 brake fluid you tried homemade? Or are you asking various ways one can remove the coating from the CS hawks - besides using Jasco paint stripper?
 
No it was stored bought, Im asking for various ways but on the subject of the dot 3 brake fluid was I supposed to let it sit, or what is the proper method to go about doing it with dot 3 brake fluid
 
Try a wire wheel on a bench grinder. If the tool was powder coated, it will be a hard finish to remove with solvents.
 
ghostbravo said:
Im looking to strip the paint of of my cold steel trail hawk but I dont have any paint stripper does anyone know of a homemade paint stripper to save me a couple dollars?
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You want to strip paint with homemade chemicals? Or are you looking to strip paint without a paint stripping chemical? I really don't understand the point of this. Just buy paint stripper and use it. That's what it's made for.
 
Fanglekai said:
You want to strip paint with homemade chemicals? Or are you looking to strip paint without a paint stripping chemical? I really don't understand the point of this. Just buy paint stripper and use it. That's what it's made for.
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The point doesnt matter, Im trying to save a trip out and it wouldnt hurt to save some money and yes I want to strip paint with homemade chemicals.
 
Well we've tried to help and give you options. I realize you want a "home made" solvent but there's nothing that's going to really give you decent results that way outside of of ton of sanding. Still unclear about why you keep mentioning saving money when it's going to cost more one way or the other than to just spend 6 bucks and be done with it and get a professional looking finish. Like you said.....the point doesn't matter.
 
I just decided to file it all down, still a little bit left on the blade but after the patina is applied I believe it will add some character to the blade.

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ghostbravo said:
I dont want to buy paint stripper I want it homemade, I realize it would be easier to buy a can thats not what I want I need a home remedy, also dot 3 fluid didnt do much
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I just tried some DOT 3 Brake fluid also,.....let it sit for 1/2 hour,.... and barely got a few flakes of paint off with a butter knife and fairly heavy scraping. (the scraping the reason, having nadda to do with the fluid) None of the expected "bubbling" and lifting I recall seeing on the past.

Then I noticed the Brake Fluid I had was "Synthetic" DOT 3 Brake Fluid, so perhaps this was designed to AVOID all the inadvertent paint stripping the original Brake fluid was known for on car bodies, if you spilled some there. :-)

I'll probably wire brush and sand it off, prior to getting mine "detailed". :D
 
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are you a chemist?

edit- whoops, posts are very old. funny thread though. "homemade" chemicals....
 
Twoinch said:
are you a chemist?

edit- whoops, posts are very old. funny thread though. "homemade" chemicals....
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LOL,...you don't have to be a chemist to see the results of no real paint lifting after 1/2 hour of full coverage with "Synthetic" Brake Fluid. You might not be old enough to remember, but the old brake fluid, spilled briefly onto a cars paint, would often lift the paint in a minute or less!

Besides,.....if Synthetic brake fluid were the same chemical composition as the original, there would be NO reason to state it being synthetic, now would there? ;) Much like Dino oil and synthetic oil,...there IS a difference, and I don't need to be a chemist to know that.

Oh,...the previous posts were not THAT old,.....11 months or so. It takes time to "develope" a thread. (9 months for most of US too!) :D
 
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I remember this thread. It sounded to me like the op was looking for info on doing something he shouldn't have because he didn't want a record of purchase....and sure enough he quit posting. Something was fishy because why bother making a homemade concoction when you can get what you need cheap at any hardware store.
 
joejeweler said:
LOL,...you don't have to be a chemist to see the results of no real paint lifting after 1/2 hour of full coverage with "Synthetic" Brake Fluid. You might not be old enough to remember, but the old brake fluid, spilled briefly onto a cars paint, would often lift the paint in a minute or less!

Besides,.....if Synthetic brake fluid were the same chemical composition as the original, there would be NO reason to state it being synthetic, now would there? ;) Much like Dino oil and synthetic oil,...there IS a difference, and I don't need to be a chemist to know that.

Oh,...the previous posts were not THAT old,.....11 months or so. It takes time to "develope" a thread. (9 months for most of US too!) :D
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well thats a bad example, as pretty much ALL "synthetic" motor oils are absolutely 100% dino oil, straight out of the ground. there is absolutely no reason they should be marketed as synthetic, but they are. Castrol won a lawsuit some two decades ago, allowing oil companies to use the term "synthetic" as a marketing term, and not an ingredients term. very few synthetic oils actually contain ANY synthetic base stock.

as for synthetic brake fluid, all brake fluid is synthetic, and the term is a marketing ploy that popped up a few years ago.. polyethylene glycol is not a natural compound. the brake fluid of today is just as damaging to paint as the old DOT 3 stuff was... the difference is more than likely in the type of paint you are trying to remove with it, and not the brake fluid itself.

i will tell you that the paint that is on my car would not withstand a half hour on an ax head in use... so whatever they used to paint ax heads is obviously much more durable than automotive paints... take some of that synthetic brake fluid and test it on your car hood for 1/2 hour and report back here, then we will have comparable data.
 
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