Stripping paint from a tinny

Looks like previous owner took to this thing with a paint brush and a tin of paint. I want to strip it back to aluminium.

 

Any tips?


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Fibre brush attachment for electric drills

Wed, 2014-04-30 14:23

Buy them from Bunnings, like a wire brush but much gentler with a weird blue fibre material - works brilliantly without damaging the ally

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i brought a heat gun with

Wed, 2014-04-30 16:41

i brought a heat gun with electronic temp setting , bosch

i should of brought one years ago

can set the temp between 50 and 630 deg might do the trick ?

other than that paint stripper , metho ect but would take alot of elbow grease

btw cost was around $130 for the heat gun from bunnings

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i asked the same question

Fri, 2014-05-02 18:46

a year ago.i tried paint stripper but it ended up a big gooey mess.i ended

up getting it done with an ultra high pressure water blaster.

came up good.

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 Why don't you just get it

Fri, 2014-05-02 21:56

 Why don't you just get it blasted? Water or soda ash blasting isn't that dear.

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