Aircraft Paint Stripper

showcrop

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I have never used aircraft paint stripper, so due to the debate about it in the prior thread I googled it, and also looked up the SDS on it. If you are going to use it you need to read up on it. DO NOT USE IT INDOORS! It is nearly straight DiChloromethane which is a pretty bad solvent.

"For OSHA controlled work place and other regular users. Use only with adequate ventilation under engineered air control systems designed to prevent exceeding appropriate TLV. For occasional use, where engineered air control is not feasible, use properly maintained and properly fitted NIOSH approved self-contained breathing apparatus for chlorinated solvent vapors. A dust mask does not provide protection against vapors."

Being solvent based it is safe on aluminum where caustic oven cleaner will attack it.
 
Those people go way overboard with warnings. I had a furniture refinishing shop for ten years and countless times I spent all day working over a 4'x8' strip tank breathing the chemicals and I'm still here. I did locate the strip tank next to the back door where the natural air flow took most of the fumes out. If the fumes are bad enough to hurt you, you won't be able to stay there. It's very strong and you can't help but to get away from it. There is also an issue with flammability with the fumes from the remover which can travel quite a distance to any open flame or spark. This is really one of the biggest reasons not to use it indoors plus stripping anything is just a very messy business.

The aircraft remover is safe for aluminum but not safe to be used on wood to be stained. While it won't hurt most woods it's prone to stain the wood giving it a green color. On oak if is soaked long enough it can cause the grain to crack open.
 
I didn?t put in the previous post that you need to use protection when using it. I use a full face respirator, thick rubber gloves, and a rain coat. It
will burn your skin, eyes, and lungs. I use the mask with oven cleaner too. A mouth full of oven cleaner fumes will remind you for a few days
after you get it. That being said it works really well with a hot water pressure washer, and is way easier than sandblasting.
 
have an F250 that the wheels clear coat coming up and looking bad.. Use the aircraft on them (aluminum) worked great
used very very fine to smooth out wheels buffed and polished to like new and resprayed clear coat.. Looked great when
finished.. Def. outside use only...LOL
 
(quoted from post at 08:23:50 02/16/18) Those people go way overboard with warnings. I had a furniture refinishing shop for ten years and countless times I spent all day working over a 4'x8' strip tank breathing the chemicals and I'm still here. I did locate the strip tank next to the back door where the natural air flow took most of the fumes out. If the fumes are bad enough to hurt you, you won't be able to stay there. It's very strong and you can't help but to get away from it. There is also an issue with flammability with the fumes from the remover which can travel quite a distance to any open flame or spark. This is really one of the biggest reasons not to use it indoors plus stripping anything is just a very messy business.

The aircraft remover is safe for aluminum but not safe to be used on wood to be stained. While it won't hurt most woods it's prone to stain the wood giving it a green color. On oak if is soaked long enough it can cause the grain to crack open.



"If the fumes are bad enough to hurt you, you won't be able to stay there." Are you serious??? the world got past this point twenty years ago.
 
It's true. If you are working with removers and the ventilation stops the fumes hit you and you have to get out of there immediately. It's not like you can tough it out and put up with it for a while. Maybe not so much with this retail remover but the commercial remover I was using it was like being hit with a mild tear gas. In any case someone working with that remover on one occasion or even doing one tractor a year if they have descent ventilation nobody is going to get ill from it. I didn't even get ill from occupational over exposure.
 
I didn?t put in the previous post that you need to use protection when using it. I use a full face respirator, thick rubber gloves, and a rain coat. It
will burn your skin, eyes, and lungs. I use the mask with oven cleaner too. A mouth full of oven cleaner fumes will remind you for a few days
after you get it. That being said it works really well with a hot water pressure washer, and is way easier than sandblasting.
 
(quoted from post at 14:01:27 02/16/18) It's true. If you are working with removers and the ventilation stops the fumes hit you and you have to get out of there immediately. It's not like you can tough it out and put up with it for a while. Maybe not so much with this retail remover but the commercial remover I was using it was like being hit with a mild tear gas. In any case someone working with that remover on one occasion or even doing one tractor a year if they have descent ventilation nobody is going to get ill from it. I didn't even get ill from occupational over exposure.

Well Stephen, the SDS for this product says that it has a sweet smell. Check it out.
 
I never used aircraft stripper saw it at the store . I used the thick
ammonia smelling stuff. It will burn and the ammonia will displace
oxygen in the air.In The last 5 yrs I been using the Orange Citrus
Paint Remover at Home Depot. I like it much better no vapors still
use eye protection but very forgiving even works better then the
caustic stuff. I thought maybe the Aircraft stuff was a gimmick. But
I thought the Orange stuff was a gimmick but I was wrong. The only
thing with the Orange Citrus is you have good original paint it took
longer and more then one application. Rinses off with water.
 
They must have recently re-formulated it then. I've use the Klean Strip Aircraft remover before and it was nearly as pungent as the commercial removers I was using. I'm unable to look up the MSDS on it since it's in PDF.
 
This is proof real men don?t need to read and follow instructions and warnings and the manufacturers only put them on containers for the weak of heart.
 
(quoted from post at 14:46:26 02/18/18) This is proof real men don?t need to read and follow instructions and warnings and the manufacturers only put them on containers for the weak of heart.

Real men don't read instructions or warnings, LOL. If you are still standing it can't be bad.
 
The human body metabolizes Dichloromethane (DCM, or methylene chloride) to CO (carbon monoxide). (GOOGLE it.)

Several years ago, my son (who DOES have some health issues) got sicker than 'ell after stripping an old Chevy pickup bumper in open air with the stuff and just barely avoided hospitalization.

Some of the posters on this thread are probably "tougher" than him, but carbon monoxide in the blood doesn't do any good, even for the TOUGH guys!

NASTY stuff.
 
Just because you're "still here" doesn't mean you did no damage to yourself. Many chemicals are harmless at low doses but some of them accumulate over time to a point where they are harmful. Often the damage isn't seen until a much later time.
I admit to doing some things I shouldn't without a respirator but I've gotten better about it over the years. The "we never used to do that and we're fine" defense doesn't go very far when it all catches up with ya!
 

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