{"id":664,"date":"2009-12-24T19:20:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T02:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesg.net\/?p=664"},"modified":"2010-01-03T14:32:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T21:32:15","slug":"stripping-luxfer-al80-scuba-tank-stage-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/?p=664","title":{"rendered":"Stripping Luxfer AL80 Scuba Tank (Stage Bottle)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the spare time I have due to the holiday break (no school or work!), I decided to strip one of my AL80&#8217;s that I&#8217;ve had sitting around so I can finally stick the MOD decals on it.\u00a0 I guess I could have just put the MOD stickers on it, but the clear coat put on from the factory was starting to yellow, and just didn&#8217;t look good, so I didn&#8217;t want to spend any money on stickers for it that would just end up coming off as soon as I had the free time.\u00a0 A friend recently sold me a cheap Halcyon AL80 stage strap as well, so I guess that helped motivate me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Procedure<\/strong>&#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Purchase paint stripper from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homedepot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Home Depot<\/a>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmbarr.com\/product.aspx?catid=72&amp;prodid=112\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to see what I used)<\/li>\n<li>Put an old yoke valve, or something you don&#8217;t want on the tank to ensure nothing gets inside it, and you don&#8217;t ruin a good valve if you spray any stripper on it.\u00a0 I had an old OMS H valve that was of no use to me, so I used that.<\/li>\n<li>Cover the tank in paint stripper.<\/li>\n<li>Use a scraper to get the foam-y paint stripper off the tank. (Wear gloves and do *not* get this stuff on your skin!)<\/li>\n<li>Rinse the tank.<\/li>\n<li>Scrape off all the paint you can scrape off easily.<\/li>\n<li>Coat the remaining painted areas with paint stripper and let it sit for 15 more minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Scrape the remaining paint off.<\/li>\n<li>Rinse cylinder.<\/li>\n<li>Put the new valve on it.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re DONE!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pics-<br \/>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-664 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/jamesg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/MG_0033.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[664]\"><img width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/MG_0033-200x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/MG_0033-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/jamesg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/MG_0033.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/jamesg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/MG_0036.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[664]\"><img width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/MG_0036-200x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/MG_0036-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/jamesg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/MG_0036.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the spare time I have due to the holiday break (no school or work!), I decided to strip one of my AL80&#8217;s that I&#8217;ve had sitting around so I can finally stick the MOD decals on it.\u00a0 I guess I could have just put the MOD stickers on it, but the clear coat put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[121],"tags":[125,126,122,124,48,123],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}