Any product or machinery that helps with what??????? A perfect finish does not exist, not even the paint on a roller or Bentley but you can get 98% perfect

 

Paint stripper stan, or some sort of electric polisher

 

Wet sanding id think or a stripper to remove old paint wondered myself

 

Doing a strip and rebuild for a.m8, maynot be a m8 much longer then again rod was in a right state, got the eyes hi build etc off polished it, but unsure what to do about the paint it looks grotty but sanding it is looking messy, rest of the rod looks good, also how realistic is a perfect finish, an is there any products or machinery that helps with this
Cheers mat

A blow lamp and paint scraper same as I used when I changed the colour of my budgie.

Sorry, you wanted sensible answers didn't you.

 

I have recently used some Wickes own brand paint stripper, it works a treat on paint, but seems quite mild, without any of the eye watering, stinky properties of Nitromors.
Dont know what it would do to Carbon Fibre, though.

Question... who would paint an unground rod anyway ?

I have some carbon fibre rod bits in my junk box, will give one a coat of the above jollop and see what happens.

Dave

 

Update to above.
I coated a bit of Carbon fibre that had been painted black at about 9.30pm...

I left it coated with the paint stripper working until about 11.30pm, when I cleaned it up, the carbon was undamaged and the paint had been removed...

This is what came off..

Plus some more that was washed down the sink.

The carbon is undamaged, and all paint removed....

This is the stuff..

Hope this helps.

Dave

 

Just take the paint off then varnish it. I have not had any complaints

 

Thanks guys, esp dave ur a star, ile post some picks wen the rods made back up

 

nice one dave,you hear horror stories about paint stripper on rods(maybe by people who haven't tried it),you have just shown us what happens when you do use it.paint has always been a pain to remove for me especially when you want a clean blank to varnish.

 

Nemesis... an unground blank generally has a lightly pitted surface, scraping it doesnt always get to the lowest level the paint is sticking to.

I have had problems in the past myself with this problem, I didnt scrape it back, just repainted it.

Dave

 

.....dave thats what this is, its an old daiwa bass maybe 15years of being manhandled used a razor to get.off the old varnish hibuild then smoothed out the dinks but where the unground meets daiwas paint its rippled, under no illusion im a skilled craftsman , find it relaxing to do tips looking like almost new

 

Matthew, I hope the paint remover works for you, cant give any guarantees though, I only know my results of what I described above.

Good luck with the rebuild.

Dave

 

the paint stripper on the surface has taken the paint off but it will go deeper into the carbon and weaken and break down the resin that holds it to gether i would think so could be risky think this is why rod manufacturers would not recommend the stripper