Recently picked up an old CIL 308 , nice rifle, but some nut bar painted the stock with a thick black paint...Can a person with caution use one of those commercial sandblast booths if they are carefull to strip off the paint ??? 
Drastic Stock Stripping..??
- Thread starter jennis
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I had a M-1 GARAND stock someone had painted . It looked like epoxy paint it was that thick and I removed it with a paint on paint remover. You paint it on , wait , scrape paint off, repete if neccesary, as many times as needed , when you are happy with the results you wash it with water from the hose and let it dry. The hosing down with water and drying seemed to bring out a few little crush marks in the wood, a light wipe down with very fine steel wool finished it out to a rough but quite usable stock that wasn't painted and even had some grain in the wood.
I would try paint stripper. Use it with Scotchbrite or steel wool. Afterwards wipe stock clean with turpentine or a thinner. (Not sure about the sand blast booth. I'm not sure how good it will work and some places would not be happy if you contaminate their blast media with old paint.)
Yes it`s messy but poly stripper will work best and to help control the mess use wood chips from a planer to scrub the finish and stripper off. The wood chips absorbs the stripper and make clean up nice and easy, you just sweep them up.
I have got a few butched up stock recently with terrible finishes, and lacqer does the job for most of them cause they are usually the canadian tire Krylon paint jobs. Try with a damp rag of lacqer and go to town. Also Try MEK, or Acetone.
- Location
- WMU247 near Edmonton
had a win94 that was painted, not just the wood either. Used poly-strippa on hte wood, worked well. Don't use on any plastic parts.
