northhouguy
Apprentice
I was gifted 18 of these pop top quart bottles. I wanted to remove the Corona painted on labels & replace them with my own.
I tried CLR. Complete waste of money & time. It didn't work at all. I tried Star-san. After a 60 hr soak @ 10x recommended strength, with a lot of elbow grease, I was able to clean 3 bottles. Most of the labels were impervious to the solution. I even tried burning off the paint w/ a small butane torch... no dice. I tried furniture paint stripper. Worthless.
This morning I bought a gallon of Muratic acid paint stripper, (Kleen-Strip brand, not the watered down "user friendly" stuff, the strongest I could buy @ the big box.)
I bought a GLASS "crock" @ Walmart, big enough to accept the bottle & tall enough so the acid would completely cover the label.
Six hours of soaking later the paint came right off w/ a light scour using 400 grit wet/dry paper.
CAUTION, CAUTION, CAUTION, WARNING WARNING, WARNING
If you try this you'll be working with HYDROCHLORIC ACID. PROTECT YOUR EYES, LUNGS, SKIN, KIDS AND PETS.
I tried CLR. Complete waste of money & time. It didn't work at all. I tried Star-san. After a 60 hr soak @ 10x recommended strength, with a lot of elbow grease, I was able to clean 3 bottles. Most of the labels were impervious to the solution. I even tried burning off the paint w/ a small butane torch... no dice. I tried furniture paint stripper. Worthless.
This morning I bought a gallon of Muratic acid paint stripper, (Kleen-Strip brand, not the watered down "user friendly" stuff, the strongest I could buy @ the big box.)
I bought a GLASS "crock" @ Walmart, big enough to accept the bottle & tall enough so the acid would completely cover the label.
Six hours of soaking later the paint came right off w/ a light scour using 400 grit wet/dry paper.
CAUTION, CAUTION, CAUTION, WARNING WARNING, WARNING
If you try this you'll be working with HYDROCHLORIC ACID. PROTECT YOUR EYES, LUNGS, SKIN, KIDS AND PETS.