How to Remove paint

I could use some help I bought a motor that they camoed up would like to remove the paint without hurting the original paint of the motor. Does anyone have a suggestion!

Find a detail shop in your area. Ask them if they have any “take off” you could get from them. It is a liquid, that you rub on, let sit for maybe 30 seconds to a minute, and wipe off.

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Try some easy off oven cleaner the cheap aerosol stuff works well had some lettering to take off my work trailer and worked great just spray on let soak and then just wipe off

Even though it requires the most elbow grease, the safest way is to sand as much of it off as possible. Once you start trying to chemically strip it, you run a lot larger chance of ruining the paint underneath. The stripper won’t care what layer of paint it is, it will attack either equally. Once you get the majority of it off sanding, I would use good ol’ acetone to do some finer clean up. The orginal paint is going to be faded/scuffed, so just wet sand it with a higher grit sand paper, and then use some rubbing compound to bring the shine back. Sounds tedious, but it will give the best results. The strippers will also work, but there is the potential for catastophe. Like any time you sand/buff paint, be careful not to burn through all the layers.

forgot to add that it won’t hurt the finish underneath

I do paint work on vehicles so I have seen just about everything.

Easy Off oven cleaner works great to remove stickers but won`t touch paint.

I don`t beleive you are going to be able to remove the first layer of paint with out taking off the original paint, or doing enough damage that it will need to be repainted anyway. If it was mine I would plan on striping it and repaint it. In the long run going to be faster and look a lot nicer.

It worked for me it was brush paint lettering on my trailer no clear over it though

The only chance there is to get that paint off the surface is if there was no surface prep before the motor was repainted. If the paint is cracking and peeling… you might have a chance to get much of it off, but its probably going to look really bad.

I would strip it, prep it, and repaint it. Come up with some new decals and make it look decent. Even if the paint is falling off, its likely going to be more work to pull off a bad paint job than it is to repaint the motor.