[Milsurplus] BC-348 nameplate

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Glass beads at 80 psi minimum.  I've no idea what the backfill material is on 
most of the WW-II vintage brass and aluminum nameplates but it readily 
withstands any paint remover that I have ever used to clean up metal nameplates that 
some dumas had overpainted.  In most cases, the treated nameplate looks fine 
after removing the later paint.  But if the backfill paint has been severely 
mechanically damaged such that it is unacceptable, your only reasonable course 
is to bead blast it.

In a message dated 9/1/2007 7:22:04 PM Central Daylight Time, 
scr287 at sbcglobal.net writes: 
> I just refinished a BC-348Q front panel, stripping
> it down to bare metal, filling modification holes and repainting.
> 
> Came out OK, but ran into a snag.
> 
> I used Strip-X to strip the front panel, and it
> worked OK, but it would not touch the paint on
> the nameplate. (I drilled out the rivets did the
> nameplate separately).
> 
> So the question is, what will strip the paint
> from the nameplate, and what is the paint (or
> manufacturing process) used on the nameplate?

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