cheap nitromors

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Tom Woods

Guest

• May 27, 2006

• #1

If anybody else here is planning to do any stripping and needs to buy
nitromors then Focus (round here atleast) have it on offer (or priced
incorrectly!)
If you buy 1litre cans you get 8litres for less than the price of a 5L
tin.

 

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Tim Hobbs

Guest

• May 27, 2006

• #2

On Sat, 27 May 2006 12:55:31 +0100, Tom Woods
<[email protected]> wrote:

>If anybody else here is planning to do any stripping and needs to buy
>nitromors then Focus (round here atleast) have it on offer (or priced
>incorrectly!)
>If you buy 1litre cans you get 8litres for less than the price of a 5L
>tin.

Yes, got some last week and queried it with the checkout. She just
shrugged and said "yep, it's stupid isn't it?"

--

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 88" aka "Stig"
'03 Volvo V70
'06 Nissan Navara aka "The Truck"

 

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Matthew Maddock

Guest

• May 27, 2006

• #3

Tom Woods wrote:
> If anybody else here is planning to do any stripping and needs to buy
> nitromors then Focus (round here atleast) have it on offer (or priced
> incorrectly!)
> If you buy 1litre cans you get 8litres for less than the price of a 5L
> tin.

Bugger - just bought a load yesterday, used both tins today tho, but
given up now and have the 2000w hairdryer on it - is proving much
easier, and far more fun! I've systematically set off every smoke
detector in the house!

Matt

 

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Tom Woods

Guest

• May 27, 2006

• #4

On Sat, 27 May 2006 14:58:40 +0100, Tim Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Sat, 27 May 2006 12:55:31 +0100, Tom Woods
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>If anybody else here is planning to do any stripping and needs to buy
>>nitromors then Focus (round here atleast) have it on offer (or priced
>>incorrectly!)
>>If you buy 1litre cans you get 8litres for less than the price of a 5L
>>tin.
>
>Yes, got some last week and queried it with the checkout. She just
>shrugged and said "yep, it's stupid isn't it?"

It took me a minute to work it out. 1L is actually cheaper than 500ml!

 

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Tom Woods

Guest

• May 28, 2006

• #5

On Sat, 27 May 2006 12:55:31 +0100, Tom Woods
<[email protected]> wrote:

>If anybody else here is planning to do any stripping and needs to buy
>nitromors then Focus (round here atleast) have it on offer (or priced
>incorrectly!)
>If you buy 1litre cans you get 8litres for less than the price of a 5L
>tin.

They better still have it at the same price tommorrow - I've run out
again!
Reckon i can put the tins in my recycling box? They do take tins and
cans but will they want ones that say 'toxic' on the sides in big
letters?

 

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Matthew Maddock

Guest

• May 28, 2006

• #6

> They better still have it at the same price tommorrow - I've run out
> again!
> Reckon i can put the tins in my recycling box? They do take tins and
> cans but will they want ones that say 'toxic' on the sides in big
> letters?

Get a hot air gun! After going through several pots of Nitromors and
getting not very far (not that I don't think that it is a good product
for the right type of thing) I spent £14.99 on a 2000w hot air gun from
Wickes with a load of fancy attachments and have done the hallway -
skirting, door frames etc. in two half days - would have taken longer
(and cost more!) using Nitromors.

Matt

 

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Tim Hobbs

Guest

• May 28, 2006

• #7

On Sun, 28 May 2006 19:08:01 +0100, Tom Woods
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On Sat, 27 May 2006 12:55:31 +0100, Tom Woods
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>If anybody else here is planning to do any stripping and needs to buy
>>nitromors then Focus (round here atleast) have it on offer (or priced
>>incorrectly!)
>>If you buy 1litre cans you get 8litres for less than the price of a 5L
>>tin.
>
>They better still have it at the same price tommorrow - I've run out
>again!
>Reckon i can put the tins in my recycling box? They do take tins and
>cans but will they want ones that say 'toxic' on the sides in big
>letters?

If you were using it commercially, it would be hazardous waste. Where
has the contents of the tin gone? In the bin (i.e. to landfill) or
down the drain? Neither is great, but there is no practical
alternative really.

I'd stick it in the recycling bin.

--

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 88" aka "Stig"
'03 Volvo V70
'06 Nissan Navara aka "The Truck"

 

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Mother

Guest

• May 28, 2006

• #8

On Sun, 28 May 2006 19:21:32 +0100, Matthew Maddock
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Get a hot air gun!

Trouble with using a hot air gun on sheet alluminium is that the
finish resembles being shotblasted with half bricks and pebbles...

http://www.101fc.net/lrfest-2005/lrfest2005-030.JPG




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increasingly capable." Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs
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Matthew Maddock

Guest

• May 28, 2006

• #9

Mother wrote:
> On Sun, 28 May 2006 19:21:32 +0100, Matthew Maddock
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Get a hot air gun!
>
> Trouble with using a hot air gun on sheet alluminium is that the
> finish resembles being shotblasted with half bricks and pebbles...
>
> http://www.101fc.net/lrfest-2005/lrfest2005-030.JPG

Ah... I see the problem!!

I understand that Nitromors works quite well on car paint - as
a guy down the road from me (when I lived in London) found
out after his wife poured it all over his car after she found
out he was cheating on her!

Matt

 

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Tom Woods

Guest

• May 28, 2006

• #10

On Sun, 28 May 2006 21:18:27 +0100, Matthew Maddock
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Mother wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 May 2006 19:21:32 +0100, Matthew Maddock
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Get a hot air gun!
>>
>> Trouble with using a hot air gun on sheet alluminium is that the
>> finish resembles being shotblasted with half bricks and pebbles...
>>
>> http://www.101fc.net/lrfest-2005/lrfest2005-030.JPG
>
>Ah... I see the problem!!

Since i'm stripping the exact same thing - that is why i'm using
nitromors!
I also get the feeling that using my hot air gun all day for a couple
of days would cost me similar in electricity as the nitromors did!