Which chemical stripper for this checkering??

[Preacher]

Pressed checkering if done the correct way is hard to tell from the real thing.....
The raised lines will turn into the diamond tops....

 

[bobm]

I used CitriStrip on that same stock a few years ago. I applied the paste liberally on the pressed panels then covered them with aluminum foil for 24 hours. It keeps the paste from drying out by reducing air exposure. Be patient, use the brush tools mentioned above and let the paste do the work. My new finish has almost a full spray can of Minwax satin applied with 0000 wool rubs in between coats. It came out great.

 

[nmkid]

Great write up folks! If I owned that stock it would stay as it is. I can imagine someone looking at your guns and saying, "what's that old one"? With you responding, "ah, let me tell you the story on this one". I guess I'm feeling nostalgic this morning!

 

[bobm]

No way mine was staying ratty. It was a good deal on a .270 pawn shop buy. The previous owner treated it like a hammer.

 

[VaniB]

The bottom line is,
ALL THE STRONG PAINT STRIPPER PRODUCTS WERE RECENTLY BANNED! Yesterday, November 21, was the last day it could be legally sold to the general public. But distributors had removed the stock from their shelves weeks or months ago. Keep in mind that many accounts of people expressing their positive personal experience working with paint strippers on youtube, or on these forums or elsewhere, are going to be months or years old accounts of their having used the more efficient preban products that contained Methylence Chloride and/or N-methylpyrrolidone. This stuff has been in use for decades, but as usual, our modern nanny government is trying to protect us from ourselves. Over the years a few people have died by using the toxic products in none ventilated large closed-off work areas, with some of the families of these victims then having petitioned the gov for a ban. On the topic of death and injury caused by a consumer product, thank goodness the government doesn't ban automobiles!

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If you care to read all the details, this is my personal account of what you may find when you shop for these products;


Yesterday I spent a half day going to Home Depot, Benjamin Moore Paint Store, Sherwin William's commercial sales store, and Tasco Auto Paints;

I read the labels on all paint stripper products at Home Depot to see that they all now say "Contains No Methylene Chloride (MC) or N-methylpyrrolidone (NPR)". It seems that Citristrip once had NPR in its formula but not MC. Well now Citristrip has neither of the 2 stripper chemicals. I proceeded to drive to Bemjamin Moore Paints.

The guy at the Benjamin Moore store tried to sell me the same products Home Depot had. When I explained I wanted the strong MC chemical, he referred me to the Sherwyn Williams commercial auto paint store in the blue-collar side of town which sells wholesale to contractors only. Drove there, and the guy there at Sherwin told me that 3 weeks ago a rep from the main office walked into the store and removed all of the cans of the MC stuff off of the shelf.

I then drove to Tasco Auto Paints which caters to the Professional Auto Painter. The woman at the counter there told me that the MC products flew off of their shelves a while back. Said one guy with a pool cleaner company bought cases of the stuff during one visit!

Ebay had one single seller who still had it in stock for $25 a quart, plus $12 shipping, plus tax. (at $40 a quart, I'll pass and use slower working new Citristrip at $14 total) If you check everybody else at amazon & Ebay for the old banned MC stripper, be careful. It seems most online sellers now know the demand for it and some are downright sneeky and misleading you by showing you file photos of the old preban MC product and omitting info that it's the new MC & NPR free products that they have.