RE: Paint stripping

[Don Muirhead <dmr@kwic.com>]

Jim:

In one of our paint shops we use a commercial stripper specifically 
designed for plastics manufactured by BASF.  This and other brands are 
commonly found at commercial supply houses that serve the aircraft, marine 
and RV industries and I've seen it in the odd automotive supply house.  You 
can also buy a consumer type product with plastic claims at many retail 
paint suppliers but I have not personally used these.  I don't know what's 
available in the UK, but I bet if you're on speaking terms with your Audi 
Dealer, their body shop will tell you what's available locally.

As far as your plastic is concerned it's an extruded high impact/high heat 
polymer bead so it has considerable tolerance for heat.  So unless you know 
for sure what type of paint was applied (if it has same or similar 
properties/binders as your bumper covers) I wouldn't use a heat gun.

Don


-----Original Message-----
From:	Jim Haseltine [SMTP:Jim@ur-q.freeserve.co.uk]
Sent:	Sunday, August 22, 1999 8:00 AM
To:	Quattro List
Subject:	Paint stripping

Has anybody any advice/cautions to give about stripping paint from plastic?
The front spoiler of my 88 Ur-q has been painted (badly) alot of times so
the paint is really thick and looks cr*p. I suspect that the spray job that
I've got scheduled for next month will be too much for it so I want to take
it off.
I'm a bit wary about using a hot air gun on a plastic base and dont know if
I can use a chemical stripper on it either.

Jim Haseltine