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Removing paint from stainless???
I purchased our first Prevost today…. a beautiful Marathon XL II. I am having the outside painted and some of the graphics that are on the stainless needs to go. My guess is a chemical paint remover. My guess is the stainless has been etched to receive the previous paint resulting in the stainless having a different finish when the paint is removed? Can you give me specific technique, steps, products etc to carefully bring the stainless back to match the other after the paint is removed?
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If you look in the previous posts, there is another fellow that just did this and the results looked great.
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Keep in mind however there could be some polishing required after the paint is removed. This is true of the new paint scheme differs from the original.
Taking paint from a set of rear doors and polishing them if needed is hard work, but is nothing compared to the effort required if the paint has to be removed from the side skins. Polishing and blending on the larger surfaces is a job that requires skill and care, especially on an XLII with bonded skins. The heat from polishing can not only buckle the stainless and really screw up the appearance, it may contribute to delamination.
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In February 2018 at the Prevost motorhome show in West Palm Beach, I spoke to a representative from Walter D’Andrea Bodyworks LLC of DeBary Florida about this subject. He said that you cannot eliminate the shadow of where the paint was on the stainless, and that they replace the panel with a new one. If true, stainless is not so stainless. He might have been saying that the labor to do the cleanup is more than the labor to replace.
I would probably try a small area myself before resorting to replacing.
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