You can use paint strippers on fiberglass, but it has to go on and be wiped and rinsed clean before it gets a chance to attack the resin, which it will certainly do. When I was finishing the glass wingtips for my home built SuperCub project I wasn't happy with the paint I had on the wing tips. Teh polyurethane paint didn't sand well, so I decided to strip them, which worked very nicely, except where I let a bit of stripper drip through the hole for the wing tip light. The drips through there literally ate a hole through the wing tip from the inside out.
Some paints sand away without a lot of trouble. Other paints will ball up and fill your sandpaper like crazy making it very difficult to effectively sand the plane to the glass for refinishing. If you want to try stripper on the glass finish, try a small spot in an area that can be easily repaired should the stripper cause damage to the glass. Maybe Lee can comment further on this as he deals with this kind of stuff professionally now days. Jeff Scott Los Alamos, NM > ----- Original Message ----- > From: billie settles > Sent: 12/29/12 07:36 PM > To: KRnet > Subject: Re: KR> Repaint > > I guess my basic question should have been, should I stay away from paint > strippers, and just sand the old surface and prepare it for painting that way. >
