This stuff is indeed as amazing as the article says! [:0]
I have an old 1:48 A-4 Skyhawk wing that I have had for years and use as a test piece for painting on and I tried that out. This wing probably has 5 or 6 coats of MM enamels, Floquil lacquers, and MM acrylics sprayed on it, so I put enough Castrol Super Clean in an old plastic margarine container to submerge most of one half of the wing. I left the wing in there for 90 minutes and went out in the garage to check on it. To my surprise the paint was wrinkled as if you had sprayed Jasco paint remover on it. Wow! [:0]
I figure that after about 4 or 5 hours I could probably put on some rubber gloves, and eye protection and scrub the paint right off with an old toothbrush.
I am still watching to see how it does but so far I am amazed at the ability of this stuff to remove paint. It is much faster than Easy-Off and cheap too.
I bought the smaller 32 oz spray bottle at Kragen Auto for $3.79, and the gallon jug of it was only $7.99. [tup]
Thanks for posting that report. I’ve been waiting to see what this stuff can do. I still haven’t found a local supplier for it, though. Sounds like it’s pretty readily available, though.
Please give us an update after you’ve had more time to work with it.
Here is a photo of that wing I tried the Castrol Super Clean on today.
This soaked for about 8 hours in this product and while rinsing it off with hot water I rubbed the surface with an old toothbrush.
It may clean this well with less time in the solution, as I didn’t try it at an earlier time today. I did however notice the paint wrinkling up pretty badly as I mentioned already after only 90 minutes in this product.
Great stuff, butt… It ate the CA on the M1A1 I striped, no big deal it is just for test painting (had several coat of paint and zimmert in spots) but some thing to watch for.
one thing to also consider, you can strain it through a air mask & reuse it over several times and reuse it. i have several gallons of it in a big plastic jug i got from a restruant which cooking oil came in
They don’t sell this Castrol product in Canada? I would think they would.
I am not aware of anything else like it except for Easy-Off Oven Cleaner which doesn’t work quite as well but is still good.
