Help, Nitromors Or Sanding???

[turboshmurbo]

Hi there i bought a motocross bike last year and the person i bought it off had the chassis powdercoated. The problem being is that he painted over the top of the chassis number!. The number is barely visable now and i was wanting to get rid of the paint over the top.

My question is:

Would it be best to use really fine wet and dry and rub the frame down untill all the paint is removed from over the top of the number?.

OR

Use Nitromors paint remover to remove the paint?.

Any Help Would Be Appreciated.

Cheers

Dave

 

[denisstark]

sand it mate

 

[sean-1]

Nitromors doesent realy work on powder coating so dont even entertain using it.

 

[chunkolini]

No way of getting powder coating off, I did a pushbike bike frame once, never again
I would try a file or maybe an orbital sander.
Chunko'.

 

[wotwot]

My son had to do the exact same thing,he took it for the mot and the tester could'nt see the numbers so would'nt mot it
He took it home and started sanding by hand,he was worried for a bit as the numbers vanished completly . As he continued the numbers appeared in all their glory.
Light coat of paint and a little laquer and all is well .

 

[rtbcomp]

Contact Eurochem (Northern) Ltd and ask about Atlas-T powder coat remover. Look in the links section on here under paint strippers.

 

[Balders]

@ Denisstark. Errrm, if you sand the high spots....they'll match the low spots - where it dips into the numbers. Therefore you'll make the numbers less visible.

Maybe a localised spot blast, wee bit of primer and a dusting of top coat

 

[Fergus]

Nitromors does shift polyester powder coat, admittedly the new stuff isn't as good as the old green gloop but it does work eventually. I've just stripped some coated parts with it.

 

[outofthefire]

I'd sand it back then use a small blow torch and a wire brush on the numbers themselves. The easiest way to get rid of powder coat is to take it to a powder coaters and pay them to burn it off in there acid bath the last chop frame I had done cost a tenner.

 

[graffian]

I would just scrape it off the numbers. If you look at classic bike dealer websites it seems quite common for them to scrape the coating /paint off the numbers.