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A great tool for stripping paint!

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marcel ledbetter
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10:20p, 10/31/18
If you find yourself having to strip paint fairly often, here's a great tool to speed you along! It's an infrared paint stripper.

https://eco-strip.com/

Re-finishing would has become a re-occurring project for me so I bought the Cobra and so far it's been a wonderful tool. It lifts paint off of wood in about five seconds. These heaters are made in Sweden and have a high quality fit and finish. The information on the website has proven accurate. I had to refurbish four large double hung windows last week and once I got the hang of using the heater, I could strip multiple layers off of one side of a window in about twenty minutes.

If you're stripping lead paint, it's nice because it doesn't melt the lead, just softens the paint. Also, the paint comes off in larger flakes, so lead paint isn't reduced to fine particles that can be blown around the work area. It's not a tool everyone needs, but if you do, it's a huge time saver.
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9:48a, 11/1/18
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Looks pretty impressive. How do you think it would hold up doing a full kitchen?
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9:51a, 11/1/18
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Use the rest of the money saved for beer.
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marcel ledbetter
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10:12a, 11/1/18
The advantage of the infrared paint stripper is that it's silent and doesn't blow super heated air. That's very important. You don't want to risk blowing a smoldering piece of paint/resin coated wood into a crevice where it can ignite. It is spendy, though. I sold some unused stuff around the shop in order to pay for it. That way it didn't impact my budget.
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10:30a, 11/1/18
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May give it a look considering this:

EPA to ban methylene chloride in Paint Strippers

Side note -- when shopping for 'products' at big box stores, I know that if it says 'Safe for Use in California', it's not worth a damn!
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In reply to civilized05 • 10:43a, 11/1/18
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Use the rest of the money saved for beer.
Lots and lots of beer!
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In reply to Ribeye-Rare • 12:47p, 11/1/18
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Ribeye-Rare said:
May give it a look considering this:

EPA to ban methylene chloride in Paint Strippers

Side note -- when shopping for 'products' at big box stores, I know that if it says 'Safe for Use in California', it's not worth a damn!
About 20 years ago, I used to work for the company that made Klean Strip. All of their line had the methylene chloride and its really what gave it the necessary power to effectively strip paint but its some harsh stuff. They bought out small company manufacturing a product called "Citri-strip" which was marketed as a environmentally safe stripper and it worked OK but you really had to let it sit on the surface for a while.

Geez, what a place to work though. They made all kinds of paint removers, paint thinners, xylene, MEK, etc. Harsh chemicals. They marketed a product called "Naked Gun" to body shops as a paint gun cleaner. The label had the silhouette of the "mud flap" girl on it and the product consisted essentially of the backwash they used to clean the fill lines of the plant when they would change them out for filling different products.

No telling how toxified I am from working there for a couple of years. I did get free product though and completed a bunch of projects back then.
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Ribeye-Rare
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In reply to 4stringAg • 8:22p, 11/1/18
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4stringAg said:
They marketed a product called "Naked Gun" to body shops as a paint gun cleaner. The label had the silhouette of the "mud flap" girl on it and the product consisted essentially of the backwash they used to clean the fill lines of the plant when they would change them out for filling different products.

I'd say they knew their market pretty well. Painters like two things - chicks and alcohol.

Oh wait, that's an offensive stereotype. Sorry.
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B-1 83
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2:09p, 11/2/18
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I've been on a sulfa antibiotic for 5 days now, and the Rx was less than a buck. I stripped the paint on the inside of a deer blind this morning.
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