paint stripers

vaguely remember someone using paint stripers to take the paint of the tank. did it work and would it work on a top yoke also is there anything i would need to look out for if it was possible

Yes, fine on the topyoke. I did my forklegs.....twice.

Get Nitromors, messy but fun.

Did it take all the original coating off your fork legs?

Originally Posted by haggis

Get Nitromors, messy but fun.

What colour tin did you use? Yellow or Green?

If it was green I have 500-750ml laying around that's no use to me. Free to a good home. Trying to strip 86 years of lead and gloss paint off the staircase, I'm told the yellow tin is better for that.

So most of a tin of green stting in my garage.

Originally Posted by Razor

Did it take all the original coating off your fork legs?

Yeah. I would *think* not... but...I heard about a lad who was using stripper on his wheels, and it took the coating off. And he ended up polishing it up, and having blingy wheels.

Not my cup of tea. You can get wheels re-coated though I suppose.

[northwind]

Nitromors green will take the tank down to metal, no problem. Excellent to watch too... crinkle, crinkle, crinkle, then wipe- no paint!

Originally Posted by Razor

Did it take all the original coating off your fork legs?

It took a couple of goes but no problem really. The problem with fork legs is that the stuff dribbles off the side so you can only do one half at a time, otherwise it's a waste.

Still, good excuse to go for a caffeine hit.

thanks folks Nitromors green