[Heathkit] Type of Paint on Heathkit cabinets

[Jim Brannigan]

Carl,
I threw a 610 cabinet in the dishwasher to clean it.  It cleaned it right 
down to bright metal!!!
Not a lick of paint was left.....

Jim


>I am redoing  4 SB-610 Monitor Scope Cabinets.
> They all came from different sources within the country.
> I am using Lacquer Thinner by a company named CROWN, found at local 
> hardware stores.
> Want to take cabinet paint down to bare aluminum metal, then sand before 
> zinc chromate  and repainting.
> Been soaking the cabinets in a quart of Thinner at a time.
> Paint on two of the cabinets came right off - lifted up - after 45 minutes 
> of soaking.
> Other two which seemed to have a more greenish ting soaked and soaked and 
> no paint came off.
> Just the yellow-brown stain from previous smokers and ages of dirt.
> Did Heathkit use two different types of paint on their cabinets ?
> If so suggestions for removing - the other - type of paint.
> Thanks for your courtesy of replying.
> 73s Carl, k4zrd