I am making my first attempt at restoring a pre-war accessory. I picked up a 270 bridge that had some white house paint on one side. So based on the research on this forum and the net, I used the “citrus” stripper, which worked very well to remove the white paint and even the red paint. I then wanted to try the boiling water and Tide combination. After letting it boil for 1 hour all ir did was to soften up the paint, I was under the impression that it would fall off of the bridge during the process. Since I had to do wipe the paint off, I thought that it my be more energy effifcient to use the citrus paint stripper then hose it off. Was the paint supposed to just “boil off” the bridge or was I supposed to wipe it off?
Just trying ti figure out what I was not doing correctly.
You will have to do some wiping, also a soft head tooth brush is helpful. Then blow dry it and you should be fine. One thing I have found over the years is to make sure you put a good base coat on before final finish coat. When lead was removed from Paint the properties of pigments were weakened. Not sure what your painting, but a coat like MOW Gray is good. Also what brand of paints are your using? Anyway sounds like your doing fine, do be afraid to lightly scrub you item your stripping.
The toothbrushes did the trick and patience. Now I need to primer it and paint it. I found that Rustoleum’s Painters Touch Colonial Red is a good maroon color to use.