Removing the paint sounded like a good idea before we started. I was told it was a 70's metallic Corvette paint. It had some minor bubbling underneath it in some spots and there was this other brown color painted over top in the back and in between the lines. I felt the fake wood look would have made it too hard to sand the old paint off. Paint stripper seemed like it would be an easy way to remove it. Slap it on, wait, then power wash it off. HAHAHA. Wrong. After two different paint strippers, it seems like we hardly made a dent. This Corvette paint seems indestructible. We ended up using Aircraft Fiberglass Paint Remover. The first was called Aqua Strip Marine. It did nothing.
Then we moved onto the Aircraft Paint stripper. This had better results.
This is the end result. This is all the stripper could remove. I guess you never know what lies beneath. A couple layers of paint, primer, patch jobs and now some bare fiberglass. So, now I need to sand, fill and patch, etc. Ughhhh. In the long run, it will be worth the effort. I hope...
That's some tough paint. Would a heat gun help getting rid of the rest of it, or would that be too dangerous to use on on that kind of material?
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