SteveB wrote:

He used to have a 55 gallon barrel out back of the house a ways. It was
filled with some liquid. They would hang fenders and tanks on wire and
lower them into the liquid. It wasn't terribly caustic or acetic because
they didn't really treat it any special way by wearing gloves or goggles.

It was up on bricks. Then would put a couple of pieces of 2x4 under it, and
light a small fire. All the paint would be off in a day or two.

Anyone have any idea what they used? They were old farm boys, and really
thrifty, so I know it had to be some very common cheap substance.


Carbon tet was one of the few paint removers/degreasers you could heat
with open flame without worry of 'Boom', and it was cheap and common.

Used as liquid for fire extinguishers...

Not really caustic, but toxic enough it got yanked off the market,
as did its replacements, Trichloroethylene and Trichlorofluoroethene

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mike
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