How to remove powder coating?

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I bought a black powder coated battery tie down for my car. I think some acid leached onto the battery tie down and has stripped some of the powder coating off. I tried using paint stripper on the powder coating but it was not effective. Is there any product that can safely remove the powder coating down to the bare metal?
 
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Battery acid seems to work
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Otherwise, as said above, the coating must be mechanically abraded off.
 
Sandblast it's only a couple minute job.
Really it only takes about a minute.
 
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Originally Posted By: dave123
Sandblast it's only a couple minute job.
Really it only takes about a minute.
what kind of sand? Ours wont touch powdercoat. Only dulls it. We use green garnet.
 
We have tons of stuff powder coated at work, I bring stuff to our powder coater almost every day. When we have something that needs to be stripped, they send it out to another place that specializes in coating removal. I don't know the specifics, but I do know that for steel parts they put them in an oven that burns the powder coating off. For aluminum parts, they use a chemical process because the heat of the oven will damage the aluminum.
 
Hydrochloric acid assuming the tie down isn't aluminum.

Soak it in a plastic container.

I've cleaned up many steel parts with the stuff. Also put some scrap aluminum trim pieces in it.. only the paint was left floating on the top.
 
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Originally Posted By: Merkava_4
Have you tried JASCO paint stripper ? That stuff is loaded up with M.E.K.


may have to try this. easily obtainable
 
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