Remington SPS, Getting spray paint off...?

[abogue77]

So I am looking at picking up a Remington 700 SPS Tactical on the cheap but the barrel and most of the action have been spray painted. Can I strip the paint off with acetone or paint thinner without hurting the black oxide finish, or am I stuck just spraying over it?

Thanks

 

[Hink]

Pick up some Citristrip in the rattle can - it'll pull off the rattlecan finish that's currently on there. It'll pull off just about any rattlecan finish, and it keeps the tree huggers and spotted owls in California happy.

The finish on the SPS Tactical isn't the best of the bunch, and you'll probably want to shoot something over it anyway. The better the prep, the better the final result.

 

[Papa Zero Three]

A cheap bottle of acetone/nail polish remover and a rag will get most of it off with a bit of elbow grease. You can use the citri strip or other similar removers, they work equally as well at getting rattle can off without harming the underlying finish as long as you don't use an abrasive material to do the removing.

 

[abogue77]

Thanks guys, found one for about $400 with cheap BSA scope figured it was decent deal, except it has the ugliest paint job I've ever seen. Not to mention the ugly as hell Hogue over molded stock, was gonna try and make it decent again if I didn't have to get crazy with the $$$.

 

[Papa Zero Three]

Same story here with a 870 shotgun at gander mountain. I came across a really bad rattlecan job on a 870 in the used rack and talked the guy down even more on the listed price, I think I walked out the door with it for $120.00 bucks. Stripped it down with the acetone and underneath was essentially a brand new shotgun that had been used very little. Sometimes you find a diamond in the rough when you take the rattle can paint off.

 

[abogue77]

What about painting the Hogue over-molded stock? Would paint stick to that?

 

[abogue77]

Same story here with a 870 shotgun at gander mountain. I came across a really bad rattlecan job on a 870 in the used rack and talked the guy down even more on the listed price, I think I walked out the door with it for $120.00 bucks. Stripped it down with the acetone and underneath was essentially a brand new shotgun that had been used very little. Sometimes you find a diamond in the rough when you take the rattle can paint off.

Yeah, I guess a can of Krylon ends up being your best friend when you're on the hunt for a used rifle.

 

[abogue77]

Wow, you guys were right about the citristrip. Thanks!

 

[malinkyhoy]

I've used nail varnish remover before, with a toothbrush.

 

[Greg Langelius *]

In the past, filling a plastic window planter with this, and immersing the object overnight softened all of the Krylon well enough to come off easily/quickly with a scrub brush. It tends to etch aluminum, and where optics are concerned, I'd prefer not to combine lens coatings with any strong cleaning agent. I seem to vaguely recall hearing something about a reformulation some time back, but this was after I last used it. For all the reasons stated below, I am no longer a follower of the rattlecan camo revolution.

Greg

 

[tylerw02]

Rem 700 SPS rifles aren't black oxide from the factory. They are just sand blasted and blued. It isn't durable and could benefit from paint anyway.