bed liner paint removal from milsurp rifles?

spinneyrob

December 30, 2012 10:44

Sometimes old milsurp rifles get painted with truck bed liner. Both wood and metal end up with a crinkle black finish. Can the stuff be removed from the furniture so as to leave the original wood in decent condition? Thanks for your help.

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  charliemeyer007

  December 30, 2012 10:57

  So Bubba has opened an arsenal refinish enterprise. My favorite solvent is Methyl Ethyl Ketone Peroxide. Read and heed the MSDS for the stuff, you and your organs will be much happier in the long run if you take the proper precautions.
  
  Perhaps the manufacture's like Herculiner offer products or suggestion for less toxic removal techniques or procedures. A heat gun and a putty knife scraper?

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  Mobuck

  December 30, 2012 12:23

  I doubt it was Herculiner but if it is, you'll need a chisel to get the thing apart.

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  rufe-snow

  December 30, 2012 14:27

  If it's one of the VZ 52's that Century Arms sold with the bedliner finished stock? Go the heat gun/plastic scraper route to get most of the crap off the stock, then paint remover for whats left.
  
  The reason that Century bedlinered the stocks was that the were in bad shape. The 3rd world folks who used them didn't reassemble them correctly, causing cracking and splintering of the stock. Because the receiver wasn't properly seated in it's metal brackets.
  
  Getting the bedliner off the stock is only the first step, if it's badly cracked and splintered.

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  countryfarmer

  December 30, 2012 16:39

  You might be better off getting a different stock than to waste your time getting that old finish off.

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  tsr1965

  January 01, 2013 02:51

  Most of the bedliners, are rubber compound based. From working in a facility that processes rubber, into molded sealing products, and sheet gasket material, including making their own compounds, Toluene works the best to dissolve rubber. We have replaced it by using T-Bac, or Tert-ButylAcetate in its place. Supposedly a much GREENER solvent, although it is more dire to the people who use it.
  
  Best

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  Riomouse911

  January 02, 2013 06:05

  Whatever you choose, it'll be a long, smelly, messy process that'll leave your head swimming from the fumes if your respirator is leaky. Good luck, and let us know how it turns out.

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