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    Be careful what your using!

    Buddy of mine asked me to bring the shine back to his diamond plate box for his truck. Thought no problem, I`ve dealt with a few of these. Upon inspection of it, Found its 10 years old and the lid is covered in spray paint. So start with my pile of chemicals (Least aggressive to Most) Nothing was making this work. Went into the back closet got Zip Strip out (if you dont know what it is, look it up! Its harsh) Ive used this to strip the paint off my leather helmet a couple of times, works great! But didn`t know the troubles ahead.

    I tested it on a corner of the top and after letting it sit for a few minutes, the spray paint came right off. So moved on to the rest of lid. Wearing very durable latex gloves, applied it all over. Came back and started to remove it and my arm was beat red an burning horribly. Washed it, then went back to work, about a minute later my hand tightened up and became a little numb and swollen! Cleaned them up real good, and everything went back to normal. After spending a good 4 hours of polishing the box, I started cleaning up.... and Heres my surprise, The Zip Strip ate through the concrete leaving a creator!! lol its about 2"X2" (the pic wont upload)
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    Re: Be careful what your using!

    Wowzers, that`s definitely the first time I`ve seen that! The 50/50 looks great on the toolbox though.

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    Re: Be careful what your using!

    Wow that sounds like some pretty potent stuff, glad all the swelling and numbness went down. I agree you did an amazing job the 50/50 is legit!

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    Re: Be careful what your using!

    probably a bad idea just being around that stuff and breathing.

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    Re: Be careful what your using!

    I think The Creator was here before the zip strip

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    Re: Be careful what your using!

    Lesson learned!
    Old Enough To Know Better, Too Stupid To Care....

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    Re: Be careful what your using!

    Glad your ok! And not to self never use a product called zip strip with a bio hazard suit

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    Re: Be careful what your using!

    That reminds me when one of the guys at the body shop accidently sat on a rag that had paint stripper on it.Poor guy..........you know how cruel guys can be....he got teased for days maybe months and got the nickname "burnbutt" for the rest of the time he worked there.

    Luckily he lived close by and went running home to take care of things.

    *I was trying to recall how all that went down and if IIRC we were all sitting around on a break when suddenly the guy shot up and yelled my "ass is on fire,my ass is burning!"with the most distressed look on his face he ran out of there.We all couldnt figure out what was wrong until someone sniffed the rag he was sitting on.I remember the rag being dry but apparently its still not safe even when dry.

    Ive been chuckling about it all day,not that he was hurting.......you just had to be there I guess! IT WAS SO FUNNY!

 

 

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