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David Smart
 
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Default How do you get Inflatable boat paint off a RIB?

Hypalon is very resistant to caustic soda which is an ingredient of some
non-solvent based strippers. Can be purchased as drain cleaner. Make a
thick paste with, say, polyfilla and 5-10% caustic soda and leave in contact
under a clingfilm skin to prevent drying out. leave for variable period on a
test piece and hose off. Could take 12-24 hrs. I used a commercial caustic
soda stripping paste to get red lead off orange hypalon with no ill effect
on the membrane

Dave

"Nigel Rudgewick-Brown" wrote in message
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I have a rib with lettering painted on the side with inflatable boat

paint.
The tubes are Hypalon.
I have tried acetone which just softens the paint
Any suggestions?