My avon rib has had its orange hull painted with a couple of coats of blue paint.
I have set about removing the paint with a pressure washer which has done a very good job, but I am now left with the hard core paint that won't shift so it's to the Armstrong methods now.
Is there any paint remover that I can use?
I have added a couple of pics.
Cheers
Owatrol Marinestrip. Just used it to take about 7 years worth of thick antifoul + primer from my RIB. It works pretty well, you put a thick layer onto the paint and leave it for 12 hours (that's for antifoul though, if there's something different on the hull it should be a lot quicker).
Mine needed about 3 applications overall because of the sheer volume of paint on there, but yours should be less. Once it's been on there long enough to bubble and flake, we found it was easiest to scrape off all the loose stuff and then give it a good pressure washing. It tends to lift the top few layers and then make the rest really soft and tacky, to the extent that it just dissolves under high pressure water.
It's safe on pretty much everything except aluminium (don't think it destroys it, just hurts the finish) and YOU. Definitely worth wearing gloves and long sleeves, I got a pretty painful burn from a blob of it falling onto my wrist.
