Decided not to highjack the door painting thread!

I was reading the thread about painting the interior of the doors body color... And I thought of a good question to ask those in the know:

How do you strip the interior paint off completely, without damaging the textured surface?

I guess it would have to be chemically... ???

Not to do so would fill the texture and dull it's appearance, if not hide it completely.

To sand it would not get the paint from the incuse parts of the texture, and would have the same 'filling' effect. Maybe even worse due to wearing down the high parts of the texture.

Chemicals even worry me, because it seems like it will be almost impossible to get the loosened paint out of the small texture. Maybe a soft wire or hard plastic bristle brush? Combined with running water maybe... or pressure washer?

I am not doing anything like this now. I just thought it was a good question to ask for future reference. Maybe someone with extensive knowledge could do a tech article in that forum.

Thanks
Dave

 

don't know for sure but first thought that came to mind was a wire wheel used carefully. If chemical then a stiff brush to get it out of the crevices.

 

Aircraft stripper works great for me

 

Who sells this Aircraft Stripper?

 

made by kleen strip, pep boys, autozone, advance auto....they all have it
think they even it in a spray can.
Robert

 

The air craft stripper (sounds fun to me :evilsmile) then wire brushes... I just havn't looked into what type of paint is used that has that sorta vinyl feel.

 

soda blast
and no not the stuff you drink

 

I used a fine wire wheel on my 4" grinder when I did mine. Takes all the paint off and doesn't damage the pattern. Personally, I dont use chemical strippers just because if you dont get 100% of it off, it will eventually lift your new paint.

 

I have stripped a textured door using aircraft stripper. I let the stripper 'soak' a while and then used a medium grade wire brush and followed up with a red scuff pad to insure all the paint was removed. It worked great, but like Mavaholic said the stripper has to be 100% removed or you will have furure problems. To remove the stripper I scrubbed the heck out of the door with paint thinner again using a red scuff pad. I then scrubbed it again with soapy water.

 

No easy way to do it!! Get down, get dirty,short of media blasting,scrubbing with caustic chemicles is the way to go.Some one mentioned stripper in aresol cans.Watch out!!! the overspray is stripper too and it goes wherever it wants.(usually onto something you dont want the paint removed from) I stay away from spraycan strippers.

 

i did the...media blast...on one of my Grabber doors this morning...

the painter picked it up this afternoon and said i could get it back Thursday...:bananaman

...Frank...:Handshake

 

Which media?

 

I personally want to smooth mine out, have to build it up with an epoxy primer. I painted Daves doors with Hot Rod black by Dupont. Something I noticed was that if the doors were used for years by some one who rested their sweaty arms(prior to Dave mind you) out the window it actually eats the metal and there was alot less texture there.

Didn't some of the later models come with smooth finish? Just for my future reference.

 

Both of my '77 Mavericks have the smooth doors. The '76 Stallion we sold also had smooth doors. I'm guessing the '76 and '77 Comets also had smooth doors since they are the same as the Mavericks.

 

my doors are from a '70,(i like the earlier arm rest)
(thanks Mike :Handshake) they are textured...
the media blasting cleans the...pores...in the texture.
the media i used is the same used in a...glassbeader...(itty bitty rocks)

...Frank...:Handshake