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Title: MX 1000 CALIPER STRIPPING? HELP!!!!!!!
Post by: daz bmx it! on March 08, 2011, 01:18 PM
Ok,I know its been asked before,but I'm stripping a green MX 1000 DC caliper (the green seem to be bomb proof!) and nothing is touching it? :shocked: so chaps whats available for me to go and buy today and bring home to my house to do the job :daumenhoch: please lmk,thx :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: MX 1000 CALIPER STRIPPING? HELP!!!!!!!
Post by: sid1972 on March 08, 2011, 01:30 PM
never stripped a green one - but people have said its like powder not paint, if paint stipper is not shifting it - go to somewhere like motosave and buy 'liquid chisel' gasket remover it will shift anything  :D

just use gloves and glasses outside.  ;)
Title: Re: MX 1000 CALIPER STRIPPING? HELP!!!!!!!
Post by: daz bmx it! on March 08, 2011, 01:53 PM
Cheers Sid :daumenhoch:  I have tried the gasket stripper in a spray can but also no good? is the stuff your on about good then? is it in a tube or spray? lmk bud :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: MX 1000 CALIPER STRIPPING? HELP!!!!!!!
Post by: sid1972 on March 08, 2011, 01:57 PM
Right if gasket stripper is not good, I would pop and see a powder coater because thats what it will be... :-\

remember the gay pensioner mentioning a product I think, might be worth dropping him a pm. That green stuff on MX's is made using the HULKS snot!  :LolLolLolLol:

http://www.choppersurplus.com/global/articles/howtoremovepowdercoating.html


http://www.ehow.com/how_4451163_remove-powder-coat.html
Title: Re: MX 1000 CALIPER STRIPPING? HELP!!!!!!!
Post by: steve69 on March 08, 2011, 07:45 PM
I stripped a NOS green MX1000 with Nitromores came off easy,
it black ano underneath  :) right fooking result as that's what colour i wanted
Title: Re: MX 1000 CALIPER STRIPPING? HELP!!!!!!!
Post by: sparky on March 09, 2011, 01:29 PM
I had the same problem with Pink and understand it was because it was enamel paint and required an acetate (something like nail varnish remover of a certain type). :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: MX 1000 CALIPER STRIPPING? HELP!!!!!!!
Post by: CD17 on March 09, 2011, 02:44 PM
I stripped a NOS green MX1000 with Nitromores came off easy,
it black ano underneath  :) right fooking result as that's what colour i wanted

I stripped a set years ago, one half came off easy, but the other half took ages, I used Nitromores too, but mine was not black ano, I think the Nitromores just turns the metal black  ???
Title: Re: MX 1000 CALIPER STRIPPING? HELP!!!!!!!
Post by: daz bmx it! on March 09, 2011, 03:23 PM
mine are chrome underneath :4_17_5: like you say,one half seemed to be easy the other half's a pain! dont want to scratch it as its for me lat curtis build ever! :(
Title: Re: MX 1000 CALIPER STRIPPING? HELP!!!!!!!
Post by: dordymush on March 10, 2011, 06:07 PM
i had a pink set i tried to strip.
ended up spraying them black as i could'nt get all the coating off.
nothing i tried would get it all off.

Title: Re: MX 1000 CALIPER STRIPPING? HELP!!!!!!!
Post by: jT Racing on March 10, 2011, 09:58 PM
i don't know whats going on with nitromoors, but i had some alabastine paint stripper(dutch make) left over when i moved back to blighty. I tried to strip a few things with some nitromoors i bought, it didn't work well, mixed results and dome untouched. I dug out the dutch stuff and it did it in a matter of a couple of minutes. nitrommors has been castrated by the health and safety nerds i think.
Title: Re: MX 1000 CALIPER STRIPPING? HELP!!!!!!!
Post by: Chinadog on March 11, 2011, 04:50 PM
I don't think the nitromoors you get today is as strong as it used to be years ago.

I needed to get some powder coating off some pedals and nitromoors wouldn't touch it, but Wilko's own brand got it off in one go! Makes your eyes water a bit though :buck2:
 
Title: Re: MX 1000 CALIPER STRIPPING? HELP!!!!!!!
Post by: oldskooldayz on March 11, 2011, 05:18 PM
i stripped some if these with that oven pride and then took a wire pad with that pink stuff on it for the kitchen to em and then polished em out with silver polish and worked a treat
Title: Re: MX 1000 CALIPER STRIPPING? HELP!!!!!!!
Post by: daz bmx it! on March 11, 2011, 06:54 PM
I know it'll come off with a lil wire wool,but I dont want to scratch em so much I have to polish them for days  :-\ so it looks like a trip to wilkos in the morning :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: MX 1000 CALIPER STRIPPING? HELP!!!!!!!
Post by: moochalargo on June 09, 2011, 11:51 AM
I've got a black mx I'm trying to strip! What worked in the end then as I am on my 3rd and Pisa last Curtis build.
Do I bother with oven pride!???
Cheers
Title: Re: MX 1000 CALIPER STRIPPING? HELP!!!!!!!
Post by: 1mancity2 on June 09, 2011, 12:25 PM
Black ones are anno unless its been refinished so oven pride should shift it  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: MX 1000 CALIPER STRIPPING? HELP!!!!!!!
Post by: moochalargo on June 09, 2011, 03:14 PM
WOW!!!!  That is awesome!!!!
Found some in the cupboard!!! Put the caliper halves in a box and poured over the pride and it's like magic!!! The colour ive spent am age trying  to remove just simply washed off!!! It's awesome!!!
Thanks for he recommendation guys!!!
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