Hello, All...
I was recently given a rather large number of 22 oz bottles that mostly appear to be from the Stone Brewing Co.
The question is, they all have painted on labeling.
What would be a good way to remove that paint? I have tried "Paint Remover" from Home Depot as well as mineral spirits with almost no luck at all.
The fellow at Home Depot said, when I took a bottle in, that it looked like a "special" paint that would require a "special" solvent.
Any ideas? Acetone, maybe?
Thanks!
I'd give acetone a try, nothing to lose but $4 or so. Get the full-strength stuff from the paint aisle. Even if it doesn't work, it's useful to have around the house.
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 03:36:22 GMT, "George Schmidt" mused:
That's true... I guess the wife could use it as industrial strength finger nail polish remover!
You say, "Full-strength stuff"... Does it come in different strengths?
From The Desk Of Marty Albert KC6UFM
Democracy is 2 wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
Well, there must be different strengths of acetone. The kind that's in nail polish remover takes about 5 minutes to soften the finish on a dining room table (I have 4 daughters) On the other hand, the stuff in the paint aisle will degloss plastic instantly and will eventually melt it after 2 or 3 minutes.
Do you actually *need* to remove the paint? When I bottle I leave labels on unless they come off when I clean the bottles and I mark the crown caps with a code using a CDR marker pen. I don't do competitions except the UK National Homebrew Festival and for that I use bottles like Timothy Taylor Landlord or Marstons Pedigree which I know the labels soak off really easily. When I give beer to friends I remind them to ignore the label and point out the cap is marked so they won't get the bottle confused with any other bottles with the same label they may have at home (unlikely as a lot of the bottles I use are from harder to find beers you can only buy from specialist beer shops). They don't care so long as there is my beer in the bottle anyway. There are times when it is nice to label a special batch yourself and in that case I either use Landlord bottles or similar where the label will soak off or I make a new label which covers the entire old label but I rarely do labels and even then I probably wouldn't label the entire batch so this isn't such a bind as it sounds.
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 10:42:04 +0100, Andy Davison mused:
There you have hit the rub, Andy... I really don't *need* to remove the labels, I just want to. I do tend to make my own labels (very simple ones, I am NO artist!) and I want the finished product to look nice and clean.
From The Desk Of Marty Albert KC6UFM
Democracy is 2 wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
Have you tried lye?
Bob
Have you tried lye?
Bob
A good, old boar bristle or cane brush and some 'solvent' gloves will do it for you.
If it were me I'd chuck the bottles and get non painted ones.
Joseph Toubes wrote:
Leave it on. Otherwise I will take them off your hands.
Just to follow up...
This weekend I got some acetone and lacquer thinner.
The acetone had no more effect than water.
The lacquer thinner, on the other hand, made the paint melt away in a matter of 5 minutes!
A quick run through the dishwasher to get the residue off, and I now have 250 bottles ready for use!
Thanks to all who offered suggestions!
From The Desk Of Marty Albert KC6UFM
Democracy is 2 wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
informed and well armed sheep.
What is the active ingredient in that lacquer thinner? Karl S.
If I might offer a much too late suggestion, I took paint off bottles (I think they were from Corona, but don't remember at this point) using steel wool pads. Scrapes off the paint, but didn't seem to hurt the glass any.
If I do it again, I'll go with lacquer thinner.
informed and well armed sheep.
On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 21:52:51 GMT, Marty Albert wrote:
Hi,
I'm Norbert, from Belgium, Europe. Sorry for my bad English. My mother-tongue is Dutch. I believe I have a solution although I never used it myself before. Give a first chance to any laquer thinner first. If this works then you're half-way because there will always be a remnant of the painting in the glass since the paint and the glass were baked in the oven together. This means the structure of the glass was changed where the paint made contact with the glass and there will always remain a reflection of the text or image after the removal of the paint. To remove this reflection you may use sandpaper but this will make your bottles all frosted. To make the glass shining again you may use sandpaper which is finer than the one you used first. For instance: you could start with P200, then proceed with P400, then go on with P800 and at last end by using P1200. After P1200 you'll need to repolish the surface of the glass with polishing powder, like cerium oxyde or iron oxyde. This can be done dry (with paper) or by the powder being mixed with a bit of water (make it a thick paste together) and a patch of pitch or a piece of wood. It's a special technique and you better ask any glassmaker how to do it. I can explain it to you by e-mail if you want. I did it before, many years ago when I made glass reflectors for Newton telescopes. It's a little complicated but I'm sure you'll have perfect bottles at the end without any text nor symbol.
Yours,
Norbert
I believe that soaking bottles in my last batch of Belgian Ale brewed with Wyeast 1214 will remove any paint.
Roger
Try a heat gun, but be careful. They work WONDERS!
opps. I just read you got the paint off already.....
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