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I bought and tried to sand blast before stripping thinking it would kill two birds with one stone. But even sand blasting was super tedious and left the metal rough which left the powder coat finish rough Bead blasting left a better metal finish but was super slow. I’m constantly trying to find a way to do something as low cost as possible but in this and many cases I ended up shooting myself in the pocket book.
One of the big problems with the stripper is it’s very thin so the part needs to be dunked in it. So for wheels you’d need a big tank and lots of gallons of the stripper. My problem was my part was 15x16x3 and an open lattice(think like semi flat basket) I had a really hard time finding a tray that was the right size. Ended up with a covered cake pan that was close but I had to make a linear stretcher die for my planisher to stretch the bottom and sides of the pan so the part would fit. Nothing is ever straight forward.
One of the big problems with the stripper is it’s very thin so the part needs to be dunked in it. So for wheels you’d need a big tank and lots of gallons of the stripper. My problem was my part was 15x16x3 and an open lattice(think like semi flat basket) I had a really hard time finding a tray that was the right size. Ended up with a covered cake pan that was close but I had to make a linear stretcher die for my planisher to stretch the bottom and sides of the pan so the part would fit. Nothing is ever straight forward.