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Paint or bondo?

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Been working on my project and ran into a snag. I have been stripping paint for hours and everything was going great. Even getting the copious amounts of off the PO used to paint the tank wasn?t too bad. I have gone through a quart of paint remover and starting to wonder if the under coat is more than primer. What do you think, the layer some sort of Bondo or really strong primer. I had the paint stripper sitting on the coat you see in the picture and it pretty much ignored the stripper. The underneath part of the tank stripped to metal like expected.


So, bondo or primer?

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There is bondo around in places. This is one of the side emblems with bondo and mystery stuff on top.
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Still have some paint on there. Are you using Aircraft Stripper? That stuff will take it off in no time without the sanding. Then you can take a wire brush on the grinder and clean it up.
 
Looks like both bondo and paint is still on the surface. If you use some high strength paint stripper it will take off everything, bondo and all. The better strippers use mineral spirits to neutralize so if you have water based stripper that may be part of the problem.
 
+1 on the Aircraft Stripper. It has the consistency of honey...sort of. Real thick and it stays on there until the paint, or whatever, starts to krinkle up. Then, just scrape it off. Easy, but messy. And, be sure to wear some really good rubber gloves because you will be sorry if you get it on your skin. :eek:
 
Plus, don't forget to wear a mask making sure you open the can outside ONLY. The smell will put you on your butt and then some.
 
Don't know what the crap was that I was using. It did work great on the factory paint or could have been the temperature was over the range it needed by the time I got to the primer layer. Where I live it gets over 100 degrees everyday. Moved into the air conditioned garage and after the parts cooled, presto, see results below. Aircraft stripper did the trick with instant results! Thanks!

Side question, 10 minutes to sand a tank? I am guessing hours for me to sand a tank, whats your secert?

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