Comments on: Removing Powder Coating

By: Gary the Coating Applicator

Gary the Coating Applicator — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:52:41 +0000

Sam, thanks for the heads up on the Dichloromethane. I work with powder coatings all the time and I am familiar with many hazardous material surrounding the application of industrial coatings. I would have filed the gasket remover tip away for future use without ever looking at its contents.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Sat, 09 May 2009 06:08:31 +0000

Thanks Sam, I’ll take a look at the site and safer chemicals. I posted your comment here as you found my new blog that I’m reworking and have not yet moved it over to this site which is my main site. Do you have and free samples

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 09 May 2009 06:03:09 +0000

FYI, Chopper Surplus has discontinued sales over the internet, per their own website information.
Anyway, my interest in this blog-article, describing the use of Gasket Remover for removing powder coating caught my interest recently. Due to my own career, which has been formulating eco-friendly paint and powder coating removers for over 30-years now.

Buyer Be Ware when handling and applying Gasket Removers for any application, including powder coating removal. What most people do not know without actually having a chemistry backround or reviewing the Material Safety Data Sheets, as I did, is that this Gasket Remover is made up primarily from a chlorinated solvent called DICHLOROMETHANE, which is suspected to cause cancer in animals. I believe these type of products also contains Hazardous Air Pollutants, which is not friendly to the atmosphere that we all breathe and share.

Old paint stripping technologies were based on chlorinated solvents, mainly methylene chloride, which again is in the same category, a suspected carcinogen in animals. This is another chemical that I would stay away from using to remove paint and powder coating.

There is good news, we at MILES Chemical Solutions, LLC, provide a variety of eco-friendly: Green type stripping solutions for stripping paint, varnish removers and to remove powder coating.

For further information on paint and varnish remover and powder coating removal products, visit us on the web at: MilesChemicalSolutions.com and leave me an e-mail with any questions that you may have about your stripping project.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:51:05 +0000

Well it may really be a FLOG entry, as the spindles might have been painted and not power coated. That is a FLOG on me, and I’ll will have to verify that but from what it sounded like when I was talking to Mike (who did the work) he was asking if I had powered coated them… OOPS. So might just be paint. So the Permatex does a great job on paint!

By: Sandy

Sandy — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:10:07 +0000

Well while out in the garage for 5 minutes I had a brainstorm, try the Gasket remover. I took the cap of the spray can and sprayed a bunch in it and took a paint brush and proceeded to paint it on the affected area where the bearing seal rolls on. Almost immediately the coating started to bubble and came right off. I painted the entire area where the seal area was covered with powder coating and a couple of paper towels wiped it clean.

So here is an ANTI-FLOG, something that actually work. And with a dangerous chemical solution as well so I’m happy.

Unless the next time I get to the garage and the entire metal area is melted, I think this is an excellent trick to add to the tool box.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:59:43 +0000

Well for the lack of a better excuse I have not done a thing with this stuff yet. I keep forgetting when I’m in the garage to whip it out and do some cleaning. Stay tuned…

By: Sandy

Sandy — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:23:45 +0000

I am a slug, I just had to use the browser history to find it, here is the credit for the site that had the info on the Permatex Gasket stripper Chopper Surplus