Technical New paint removing tool

Definitely Low heat or no heat.
Similar rough surface drum to the disks that go on a mini grinder, but very effective.

The $60.00 price for the drums is excessive, you can sometimes get away with the $50.00 drum. The ware rate with heavy use is about two days per drum.

I'm not happy with the cost of the drum, but they do work well, and I bought a second machine as I was impressed with the speed of rust removal from the first tool. I'm stripping an 18 foot VW Type 2 Motor Home or Bus that has a sixty year rust build up from end to end. I have used 8 drums, with two guys stripping. So far the bus is about 75% done and has taken about ten working days.

I'm using a Porta Cable for the smaller surfaces. The Porta Cable is smaller, cheaper but does not have the umph of the SCT Countour. The Porta Cable has about 3.5 Amps, the Eastwood about 11 Amps and is gear, not belt driven.

The Bus which was really rough is now beautiful metal wise. Rust Mort starts the process, then grind the panel, and after you are done apply one step metal conditioner. I have been though two rain storms. No new rust on bare, not primered metal. It takes about forty five minutes to remove heavy built up rust from a panel. I too am waiting for Harbor Freight to manufacture the Drum. Eastwood took 8 days to fill my last order of drums. Was not happy about that. They normally get the order out in two or three days.

My bus is 18 feet long and twelve feet high and is sixty years old

 

Just bringing this back up because I came across what may be the real source of this equipment.
I had the su****ion that this was not something that Eastwood came up with on their own, rather just something they decided to market.

I’m not sure but you might even be able to get a more reasonable price on the consumables.

https://www.csunitec.com/metal-surface-finishing

 

If you are a "tool hound" and looking to spend a lot of money, go for it.

I did a comparison test a couple years ago on 6 different brands of paint stripping discs on a 4.5" angle grinder. Tried the black ones, green ones, brown ones, blue one a gray one and a purple one.

Hands down the Wagner Paint Eater did the best job (purple). Stripped my unibody box side from a re-spray over the original paint with a lot of filler and primer between the 2. Side of box took about 15 minutes and didn't use up a complete disc. The pic of the new disc sitting beside a used disk is what was used to do both box sides. They also get into tighter areas than the drum type will.

I'm a huge fan of the Wagner Paint Eater. Some of the others gummed up on the re-spray paint. Some went right thru the re-spray and got plugged with original paint or primer. The Wagner never got plugged once.

We all probably have a 4.5" angle grinder (if not how do you do any work?!?!?) so a $15 dollar disc makes a lot of sense to me vs $250+ to have a machine and drum. I can buy a lot of Wagner discs for that!

SPark

 

I just picked one of these up myself. Hope I have the same results!