What angle on the boxcutter are you guys using when paint stripping?
Are you trying to get under the paint and get a flake off? Or are you kind of scraping at 90 degrees or maybe even dragging the blade backwards?
Are you using the blade for the primer too or leaving the primer for the wet sanding? Have you found a white painted bike's primer to be much thicker than a dark paintjob primer? I wonder which is easier to paintstrip?
I'm hunting for a used izalco max frame and I'm tired to always find the heavier paint job. I decided to just paint strip it and try to get a deal (like 700usd) for any paint job.
Paint strip frame to save weight?
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I would advice scraping with the edge of the blade at a perpendicular 90° angle. Dragging the blade is probably safer but also less effective.alcatraz wrote: ↑Sat Oct 05, 2019 2:44 amWhat angle on the boxcutter are you guys using when paint stripping?
Are you trying to get under the paint and get a flake off? Or are you kind of scraping at 90 degrees or maybe even dragging the blade backwards?
Are you using the blade for the primer too or leaving the primer for the wet sanding? Have you found a white painted bike's primer to be much thicker than a dark paintjob primer? I wonder which is easier to paintstrip?
I'm hunting for a used izalco max frame and I'm tired to always find the heavier paint job. I decided to just paint strip it and try to get a deal (like 700usd) for any paint job.
You want to peel the paint off little by little and work your way down through the different layers of top coats and primer. Patience is the name of the game.
A little update on the final touches of the paint removal project.
I painted the entire frame set with a 2K adhesion promoter and subsequently a 2K polyurethane clear coat. I didn't use more than 5-10 ml of paint and still got a deep gloss and wet look.
The nude carbon is conductive and ages the aluminum riv-nuts quite rapidly, so I replaced the riv-nuts;
The bike before the clear coat with just Aerospace 303 UV protectant;
The bike in it's current state;
I painted the entire frame set with a 2K adhesion promoter and subsequently a 2K polyurethane clear coat. I didn't use more than 5-10 ml of paint and still got a deep gloss and wet look.
The nude carbon is conductive and ages the aluminum riv-nuts quite rapidly, so I replaced the riv-nuts;
The bike before the clear coat with just Aerospace 303 UV protectant;
The bike in it's current state;