California/Indiana strippers

Go Boilers! That’s my old stomping grounds.

What are you trying to strip off – varnish, paint?

-- Betsy - GO BUCKS!

That’s one of my reasons for leaving California. Regulation, Imigration, Stupid laws about stupid things, and traffic.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Betsy, Years old varnish.

Gary, The hits just keep on coming. You missed one…taxation. I don’t know how long you’ve been gone but, today, I went to see a friend who works at a local credit union. Yesterday, she had a Hispanic customer with her eight or nine year old daughter as her interpreter. She was trying to explain that the enterpreter had to be at least eighteen for legal reasons. The customer explained to my friend, through her daughter, that if she couldn’t speak Spanish, she didn’t want to deal with her.

We go to Mexico several times a year and while we’re there, I do my best in Spanish as a common courtesy in their country. They usually answer me in English. I think there are more English speaking people in Baja than there are in California but, then again, their livelihoods depend upon it. Not so here.

-- Ron, Bakersfield, CA. Measure twice, cut twice anyway.

Just about everything is legal in Indiana, what do you want! I haven’t had to strip much off of wood myself so the only thing I have experience with is Airplane striper which will take paint off of metal in a jiffy.

Marc,

You stripped an airplane??? Bear with me…we’re sheltered here in California.

-- Ron, Bakersfield, CA. Measure twice, cut twice anyway.

Its called Aircraft Paint stripper or paint remover. Nasty stuff but chews through high strength paints. I read an article not that long ago that compared strippers I wish I could remember where it is, I can’t seem to find it now.

Say what you will about CA, I love it, you can’t run from our regulations because we set the standards and ALL follow, I remember hearing “I’d never live in CA cause you have smog standards for your cars”
The west coast is the best coast!!!
Sorry just get sick of people talking $# about this wounderfull state.

-- MARK IN BOB, So. CAL

Mark,

Where in CA are you?

-- Ron, Bakersfield, CA. Measure twice, cut twice anyway.

mski – I was born and lived in California for 48 years. It’s a great state if you don’t mind all the crap.
It wasn’t worth it to me. California does set a lot trends but not all of them are followed.

Like spending 1/3 of your life working for the government.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNOW-kzRnEk

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Shucks, I came to this thread looking for strippers!

-- North Texas

I find that Ready Strip (available at the BORG, and probably the other Big Boxes) does a pretty good job at lifting off several layers of paint, right down to the wood in one go and is pretty safe to handle. It’s probably not what you were using before, but perhaps akin? I compared it alongside a harsher product that used a paper backing (wait til it dries then peel it off) and it worked just as good, if not better – and didn’t have to worry about gloves (or the pets getting into it)

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Vincent Van Gogh -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

Ron I’m in Camarillo
Gary ,crap everywhere ya go, just smells different, only complaint I have is $ for housing

-- MARK IN BOB, So. CAL

DARN … I THOUGHT YOU MEANT GIRL STRIPPERS I’m out of here….

-- Odie, Confucius say, "He who laughs at one's self is BUTT of joke".

Gary & Mark,

I just got in from Charlotte, Chicago and several stops in Indiana. All absolutely gorgeous. I’ve lived all over California, both rural and metro, from San Diego to Chico & a lot of points in between and have a pretty good handle on what’s here. If CA has the fourth highest taxes in the country, I sure as hell can’t figure out where all the money’s going…prop. 13 killed our educational system so you can rule the schools out. Try finding a high school grad here who can find Iraq on a map.

I do know where some of it went. It went to Diane Feinstein’s Desert Protection Act. It went to buy up privately owned property in the CA deserts so they could become government property and be declared off limits (very fragile deserts, you know) to protect them from us. “Off limits” means we can’t go there anymore.

Well, guess who had previously bought desert land to speculate on and took a bath when his plan fell through. SURPRISE…Diane Feinstein’s brother. Poor bastard had his land bought up with our tax dollars.

We set the standards, alright.

-- Ron, Bakersfield, CA. Measure twice, cut twice anyway.

Scott,

Thanks for the tip. I’ll give it a shot.

-- Ron, Bakersfield, CA. Measure twice, cut twice anyway.

Ron,
First off I am with odie there….the title was VERY misleading!

I have used that stuff before, came in a blue and with can and it was called aircraft paint stripper. The fumes alone would knock you out. Need rubber siute to spray it since splatter over spray on your skin would burn like fire!! If I remember correct I bought it at Auto Zone when I was putting a new 302 in the 66 mustang. That stuff would strip the paint and your skin smooth off !

ruungt

-- It seem's I just make scrap wood and saw dust most of the time !

Runngt,

Thanks for reinforcing Odie’s post. I’ll absolutely look for that stuff. A new 302 in a ‘66 Mustang? Sounds good to me. I can cut wood six days from Sunday but never figured out the car deal. I’m in awe of people who can do that! How about a picture of it?

As for the misleading title, I had to come up with something that you guys would actually read. My apologies :)

-- Ron, Bakersfield, CA. Measure twice, cut twice anyway.