MGB Easy off Oven Cleaner!?!?!?!? Yuppppp!

[CZ_Dave]

Received a new customers car, a 1978 MGB as a basket case,
removed everything that was piled up in the interior and took somewhat stock of what was there.
When looking over the car, my previous predecessor completely detailed the engine compartment,
if you call, taking a can of gloss black rattle can paint and painting EVERYTHING,
wiring, and EVERYTHING color coded, and did I say EVERYTHING gloss black.

What do ya do to strip the paint?

My solution, easy off oven cleaner.
Yup! Stuff works, cleaned everything
that was painted , now I can see the color coding on the wiring:highly_amused:

He also painted everything behind the dash that he took out,
with gloss black paint, it works there too.

 

[JPSmit]

impressive - can you come do my kitchen? :grin: actually I have used it also - though not that extensively. Scrubbing Bubbles is another go to product - especially for aluminium.

 

[Joe Reed]

Thanks for the tip! I've heard of using Easy Off to remove the anodizing from the windshield frame, but not to remove paint like that. I'll have to do that on the wiring in my boot....they're all green

 

[DrEntropy]

Half-arsed body shops are to blame.

I ~once~ let a "shop" do the paintwork on one of my Lotus cars... Mitsy and I were coming to Florida for a vacation and to explore employment opportunities, I had stipulated that there should be NO bondo used as the thing was made of "frozen snot" (fiberglass) and should remain so. The other thing was that I wanted all trim and lights removed, no masking of trim. This shop had been doing some work for the Porsche dealer I was working for, that work was done well. When we returned after a couple weeks, he hadn't finished it yet. When I did go to bring it home, he told me he'd had his nephew "help" strip the lights and trim from the thing and the kid had CUT EVERY WIRE about two inches from the Lucar connectors and they hadn't bothered to block off the holes where the lights were in the body. I'd paid him a "deposit" of half of his quoted price, it was immediately explained to him that he was now "Paid in Full" and he could expect NO MORE work from the dealership for his half-baked effort. And later I found that he'd BONDO'd a piece into the hood where I'd asked him to 'glass in a piece after removing the ZS "bump" as I'd fitted a Weber head to the car and the bump was a detraction from the original design. That was pre-Trump: "You're FIRED!" Took me hours of wiping wires with laquer thinner, rags, soldering gun and heat shrink to correct the upscrewed wiring. Easy-Off wouldn't touch the automotive paint in my case.

 

[Grantura_MKI]

Works excellent on removing anodizing from aero fittings.

 

[Basil]

Wonder how it would work at degreasing?

 

[JPSmit]

Wonder how it would work at degreasing?

used it for that too though I prefer Simply Green - less caustic

 

[Lynn Kirkpatrick]

I was told that to remove anodizing the original formula Easy Off is needed. The new "odor-free" doesn't have the right mojo in it. FWIW

 

[JPSmit]

I was told that to remove anodizing the original formula Easy Off is needed. The new "odor-free" doesn't have the right mojo in it. FWIW

But OTOH your car does smell lemony fresh!

 

[Sarastro]

Any strong alkali, not just easy-off, will remove anodizing or aluminum corrosion. It will attack the aluminum, so really should be careful with it. Also, you MUST use gloves with it; keep it off your skin. It might work for degreasing, as long as you're not degreasing aluminum. But there are all kinds of detergents and solvents that are fine for that, and aren't as dangerous to you or the parts.

I had never heard of it used to remove paint, but it's not terribly surprising. The stuff is nasty enough.