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Update: On a separate occation I tried using a chemical paint stripper which had no effect on the CARC...Well, the first word in that acronym is "Chemical resistant" which works very well I must say :p. So back to the drawing board... I did some research on dry ice blasting & while it looks...

Alright, the weather was nice today & I had off from work so I went down to the local equipment rental place & rented a "cold water" pressure washer with a PSI rating of 4k. After some experimenting, used the red (smallest apeture) tip for paint removal. Wound up not using the...

Hhmm, I'm intrigued ;). I'll have to do some looking into that. All we seem to have around here (& it's not many) are media blasters that use either coal slag,sand or glass beads. Thanks for that tip. Steam Jennys (hi pres. hot water) are nice. I use one all the time at work...

PPE is SOP even if I wasn't using a chemical striping agent w/ pressure washer. Those things are not toys. Matt

The weather is supposed to be nice towards the end of next week (sunny & in the low/mid 70s). I'm going to experiment with a hi-pressure washer (4000psi) to see how effective it is against the old paint on the M548. Just had a thought: maybe use a combo of paint stripper &...

Yeah it's been too cold here to do anything as well. Waiting for the weather to break so I can get back to work on this project. I am lucky in that I haven't had any problems with neighbors (with this project) thus far. I did have an issue about 10-15 years ago and it wasn't a neighbor, it was...

For starters I've read the thread below on "sand" blasting aluminum and found it very informative. http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?81797-Blasting-Aluminum I would have asked this question on there but thought that it would be high-jacking that thread... I'm in the...