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Oil based paint on slabs

gary0345 · 2019-04-12 16:43:33

Just wondering If anyone can help me out. I was finishing up painting my door with red oil based paint and cleaning up soem paint I spilled. It was late and dark and I was unaware there was paint on my shoes walking the paint in to Indian sandstone slabs out the back. I didn't notice it until the next morning until it was…

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#32 12-04-2019 9:33pm
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Build a sacrificial altar just above the stained slabs, nobody would question the red stains then.

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#33 12-04-2019 11:09pm
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FrancieBrady wrote: »

No, it is even stronger than acetone. A strong acid. Seen it used very effectively on a project I was on.

Acetone will evaporate before having any effect I would imagine.

He could try HF and get rid of the whole slab.

Perhaps DMSO with 6% sulphuric acid to remove the paint.

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#34 12-04-2019 11:55pm
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Get a Sander machine and try and sand a bit off and see how that goes. I wouldn't try add any more liquid based solution to it. All that's going to do is make your tiles look like Mikhail Gorbachev's noggin x 100

"You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats

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#35 13-04-2019 2:28am
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Camouflage the areas affected?

Not your ornery onager

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