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Clarkes needle scaler for paint removel ?

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Clarkes needle scaler for paint removel ?

Postby tracerman » 02 Apr 2016, 18:45

Reading Doug's thread about his Meddings drill refurb has got me thinking again (again) today about doing a refurb/resto on my old Myford ML8 lathe which is now long overdue . I have some fairly lethal chemical paint stripper ( Paramose) which I assume will be ok for larger flatter surfaces , but for more awkward parts I am tempted to invest in a needle-scaler - would this leave any marks or indentations on castings ?
Any suggestions welcome .

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Re: Clarkes needle scaler for paint removel ?

Postby kirkpoore1 » 03 Apr 2016, 23:33

tracerman wrote:Reading Doug's thread about his Meddings drill refurb has got me thinking again (again) today about doing a refurb/resto on my old Myford ML8 lathe which is now long overdue . I have some fairly lethal chemical paint stripper ( Paramose) which I assume will be ok for larger flatter surfaces , but for more awkward parts I am tempted to invest in a needle-scaler - would this leave any marks or indentations on castings ?
Any suggestions welcome .

Steve


On castings, no. Don't use it on sheet metal, but for castings they're great. Except they (or at least the ones I've used) don't go into little nooks and crannies.

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Re: Clarkes needle scaler for paint removel ?

Postby tracerman » 04 Apr 2016, 09:52

Kirk - I'm grateful for your comments as I thought that one of the things they were supposed to do was to get into nooks and crannies - therefore I will start off with the nasty chemical stuff and see how it looks .

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