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For anyone dealing with hard-to-remove spray paint, here's how I got mine off.
Background- I mostly use Rustoleum for my rattle can jobs, however on this particular firearm I used Aervoe. This stuff is freaking cerakote in a can. It dried real hard and smooth, almost looked and felt like a cerakote. Rustoleum usually comes off with brake clean. Brake clean, paint thinner, goof off, acetone WOULDNT take this stuff off!
I sold the upper that was on this lower so I wanted to strip the paint and put it on a different m4 style upper.
First, I took off all plastics and removed basically everything other than my bolt catch and trigger guard.
I did a quick brake clean job on it to get rid of all oil.
I dried the gun completely, threw on some chemical resistant glovss, and sprayed a heavy layer of Citristrip on it. I coated it with enough to give it an orange hue.
I let it sit for 1 hour. I then brought it to my sink and used scalding hot water and the back side of a sponge to get most of the work done. It removed maybe 30% of the paint. Like I said, Aervoe is TOUGH.
Spray #2, sit for one hour, and back to sink with hot water. This got most of the surface paint off. I still had a lot caked in the grooves.
Spray #3, sat for one hour. It looked like this.
I hit it again in the sink this time with a medium-hard bristle tooth brush. That did the trick.
I dried ALL water out of the gun by using a mixture of cleaning towels and some keyboard duster spray. This will leave the firearm with a bit of a "gray" look because of all the chemicals on the anodizing.
I sprayed the lower again with brake clean to make sure all chemicals are off the lower, dried it, and gave it a really good spray of clp and let it soak for about 30 mins.
I wiped all of it down, reinstalled some different furniture, and TADA. Good as new. See comment below for before and after photos. I ran out of space!
Background- I mostly use Rustoleum for my rattle can jobs, however on this particular firearm I used Aervoe. This stuff is freaking cerakote in a can. It dried real hard and smooth, almost looked and felt like a cerakote. Rustoleum usually comes off with brake clean. Brake clean, paint thinner, goof off, acetone WOULDNT take this stuff off!
I sold the upper that was on this lower so I wanted to strip the paint and put it on a different m4 style upper.
First, I took off all plastics and removed basically everything other than my bolt catch and trigger guard.
I did a quick brake clean job on it to get rid of all oil.
I dried the gun completely, threw on some chemical resistant glovss, and sprayed a heavy layer of Citristrip on it. I coated it with enough to give it an orange hue.
I let it sit for 1 hour. I then brought it to my sink and used scalding hot water and the back side of a sponge to get most of the work done. It removed maybe 30% of the paint. Like I said, Aervoe is TOUGH.
Spray #2, sit for one hour, and back to sink with hot water. This got most of the surface paint off. I still had a lot caked in the grooves.
Spray #3, sat for one hour. It looked like this.
I hit it again in the sink this time with a medium-hard bristle tooth brush. That did the trick.
I dried ALL water out of the gun by using a mixture of cleaning towels and some keyboard duster spray. This will leave the firearm with a bit of a "gray" look because of all the chemicals on the anodizing.
I sprayed the lower again with brake clean to make sure all chemicals are off the lower, dried it, and gave it a really good spray of clp and let it soak for about 30 mins.
I wiped all of it down, reinstalled some different furniture, and TADA. Good as new. See comment below for before and after photos. I ran out of space!
