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Removing spray paint from tools

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#1 ·
Home depot screw up my tool and because of there " idiot " worker told me that this spray paint will work metal tools

here a piece of free advice : dont shop at this home depot " but i will not tell which store " is best that dont know but they know who they are !

anyway.....................so now i want to strip the paint off

most of my tool are metal with 2 hammer with wodden handle

i try " paint thinner " but is doesn't work so any suggestion

and also i have some other tool like bits are a little rusted any suggestion to remove it
 
#6 ·
you didnt meantion that this stuff is lethal and when make contact with the skin is sting

" well i got stink and my tool are DESTORYED by this chemicial it ate them the paint right down to the protecting coating of the paint "

so................what happen last week i call HD Corp and i made another compliant not from the chemicial but the ass**** sold me the wrong paint but overal i came out good " they mail me a $100 GC " and a few day ago i got a new Husky tool set and i'm happy:) but sad:( because i have that other tool set for 8yrs and it was my very 1th tool set so this make this my 2nd tool set and i going to do nothing " no paint "

thank guy


 
#8 ·
Harold, Sorry about the sting and your tools. If it will strip paint, it will remove the natural oils from your skin, burn in a cut, and being a remover, will also attack the original paint. Glad you are happy with the gifts you got from the company.
 
#9 ·
Harold, Sorry about the sting and your tools. If it will strip paint, it will remove the natural oils from your skin, burn in a cut, and being a remover, will also attack the original paint. Glad you are happy with the gifts you got from the company. Your post serves as a constant reminder to ALWAYS explain
 
#10 ·
Harold, Sorry about the sting and your tools. If it will strip paint, it will remove the natural oils from your skin, burn in a cut, and being a remover, will also attack the original paint. Glad you are happy with the gifts you got from the company. Your post serves as a constant reminder to ALWAYS explain all the things that can happen when giving advice.
 
#11 ·
OK Terry, we got it!:):thumbsup::)

I never stop being amazed by some people. I wonder if we were all to badger HD repeatedly if we would get a gift certificate also? I could use some new tools and a hundred bucks.:)


Laquer Thinner would have been my first lethal-chemical-of-choice, just for future reference.
 
#13 ·
The Dykem remover I recommended is mostly aerosolized MEK with some Toluene. I can only imagine what this nut job would have done with that. Used the rest of the can for bathroom air freshener and complained that he's blind now? I take a more Darwinian approach to home improvements. If you got hurt in the process, you didn't deserve that new tile floor or door or whatever.
 
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