Anybody know how to do this, aside from either scraping or sanding? I have just purchased a third-hand Velocity rolling chassis with unfitted, (I believe) powder coated ali sidepanels. These are the pre-cut Luego jobbies so are worth hanging on to but the powdercoat is not the colour I want and the finish sucks. Can I use paint stripper or is there another easier way?

Shot blasting is number one, heat gun and scraper is next, do not use paint stripper unless you are very sure you can get rid of ALL of it afterwards, it will dissolve the chassis if left on for long enough (or inside the chassis)

The firm i use sand down items then re-coat if something iffy occured during coating...i have seen what can only be described as watered down powdercoating very bizzare finish where it looked all washed out...bit like spraying using too much thinners and not enough paint!...the fella was well cheesed off but i thought it looked really good......he was not amused with my reaction to it either...ooppss!

Why do you need to strip it off?
Could you not just overcoat it with a decent finish?

Not without spraying an awful lot of filler primer and having the mother of all flatting off jobs to do as it defines the term 'orange peel effect'. Plus i'd rather have all of that bare ali to polish, honest!

Hmmmmmm, polished ali.......................
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