Hello Folks, Probably a question mostly for Monster owners, but, my Bimota tank has major paint problems and will need repainted, it's a nylon tank, and rather than succumbing primarily to the dreaded ethanol blistering, the problem seems to be a lack of properly adhered paint, large chunks of it. The tank has been used with only leaded fuel for at least 8 years, or so I was told. I've been in touch with a few well known paint establishments here in the UK, and the opinion is, don't, under any circumstance, use any form of chemical paint stripper, and I can readily agree with that. So, does anyone have any experience of having a nylon tank stripped of paint, and if so, how?. I won't be painting or stripping it myself, but I would like to be armed with a little knowledge when someone says, "oh yea, I use paint stripper all the time on plastic tanks, never had any problem". I have a feeling that sanding is the only solution, but thought I would ask. I've done the search engine thing, but while there seems to be lots of discussion about similar problems, I couldn't find anything on a solution concerning paint removal. Thanks, Alan.
If it was me, I'd be expecting the painter to prep the current paint job for spraying over. Areas of damage would need to be locally sanded and sealed but I wouldn't be going back to bare surface. Andy
Hi Andy, Thanks for the reply. Too far gone for that I'm afraid, the paint has completely lifted off probably 20% of the tank, and I wouldn't trust the substrate to have properly adhered to the paint that was left, imagine having a lovely paint job just for the rest of the original paint underneath to lift!. I think part of the problem may also be that the original paint is very thick, and I see no sign of primer strangely. Alan.
What about having it shot blasted? I know they can use different softer things to blast at it! Might be worth finding a local blaster and asking the question?
Soda blasting is a good way of getting rid of the old paint or blast with walnut shells would work too.
In my opinion, it's very hard to get paint to stick to Nylon - it's slippery stuff! I'd have a deep consultation with your painter about how he's going to key into it.
