What Chemical to remove cracked powder coating?

chrisk said:
:o Milkstone .... I?ll look that up.
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It's calcium deposits from the milk which builds up in the pipelines and other equipment. Pretty similar to limescale from hard water, I use the milkstone remover as a kettle descaler as well as alloy cleaner etc.
 
De-scale a kettle? Never heard of anyone doing that before. Your tap water must have a lot more minerals in it than the stuff that comes out of my tap. Does your cup of tea taste like effluent from a chemical factory?

I reckon my kettle is about 20 years old and it's just got a light brown stain on the bottom where the heating element is. My tea tastes OK so I've never bothered to do anything about it.
 
Dellortoman said:
De-scale a kettle? Never heard of anyone doing that before. Your tap water must have a lot more minerals in it than the stuff that comes out of my tap. Does your cup of tea taste like effluent from a chemical factory?

I reckon my kettle is about 20 years old and it's just got a light brown stain on the bottom where the heating element is. My tea tastes OK so I've never bothered to do anything about it.
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I live in a very hard water area too Cam!
The white cliffs of Dover are made of the same stuff that our drinking water filters through - Limestone/Chalk.

Washing machines, dishwashers, kettles, domestic boilers and hot water tanks fill up with scale from the chalk.
It's an absolute pain as the efficiency of heating elements drops off the planet, unless of course we descale or buy a water softener.

 
In Australia, Diggers Paint stripper has 870g/L of Meth Chloride, and 130g/L of Methanol. Painted it on, it did work like the U tube. This powder coating is about 1.5mm thick. If the anti corrosion prep work had of been done, it probably would have lasted forever.

I found that paint it with Diggers, let it soak for a day or so, burn it with the oxy, sand blast, repaint with diggers, soak, burn, blast. it is so fkn tough!!!

The diggers soaking into the powder coating seems to explode with heat and lifts it....

Do yourself a favour though, don't get the smoke in your nose. hurts like hell, makes me chuck up. Even the dog, that came to see what I was doing, got a baby wiff, and same thing.... :(

Regards, Greg
 
I?m about to give my Kawasaki a face lift, new bodywork arrived last week.

Long story, but I had a little high-side coming out of a right hander :-[  every piece of the body was trashed, bar the tank, one small dent from my knee as I parted ways with the bike.

Vince, I checked out the ferns on the side of the road, they look different when you are looking up at the bottom of them.

I was going to Powdercoat the wheels and frame, but now  (dunno)
Maybe I?ll get them polished.
 
ghwallice said:
In Australia, Diggers Paint stripper has 870g/L of Meth Chloride, and 130g/L of Methanol.

I found that paint it with Diggers, let it soak for a day or so, burn it with the oxy, sand blast, repaint with diggers, soak, burn, blast. it is so fkn tough!!!

The diggers soaking into the powder coating seems to explode with heat and lifts it....

Do yourself a favour though, don't get the smoke in your nose. hurts like hell, makes me chuck up. Even the dog, that came to see what I was doing, got a baby wiff, and same thing.... :(

Regards, Greg
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I'm not surprised it explodes....It's porous and when you heat it, the methyl alcohol it's absorbed is going to explode.
 
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