First Report on Alkaline-Organic Missile Component Paint Removers

摘要

Stable, single phase, alkaline-organic paint removers have been developed suitable for stripping paint from missile component parts of aluminum and magnesium. Bench tests indicating improvement in stripping efficiency of 50 to 75 percent over that of the best conventional alkaline aluminum strippers were confirmed by field tests at an Ordnance Depot. The addition of specific high boiling-high flash point glycols and/or triols and hydroxyalkylamines to conventional alkaline aluminum strippers produced the stable, single phase paint removers of improved efficiency. Exploratory tests indicated that certain cationic dispersing agents could replace the fatty acid or rosin soaps of the developed formulations.