Okay so I had the day off of work and I put some time into the Gourmet today. It proved a little tougher than I had anticipated. THe paint that was on there had to be real old and crusted on. It took a lot to get it all off. First I used lacquer thinner, and it didn't work so well. Then I went to oven cleaner and that was not doing so well. The i decided to use heat, that softened the paint and I used an xacto chisel blade and gently scraped the paint off. I will tell you one thing, if you think the red grills change color you really need to see these yellows. The turn almost orange, I'll get pictures tomorrow of how orange it turns. Once I got the paint off the lid and it looked pretty good, I turned to the bowl. The bowl was a whole other story. This paint would not come off. I got it hot with a load of coshell and it just barely softened it but it was so thick I could not scrape it. Then it started turning black, it looked like a real mess. I finally got some paint stripper and used that. That worked well. I took the legs off and got the wheels removed. It revealed how bad the leg socket was. One was really loose. I Ended putting a nut and bolt in it to strengthen it and it worked awesome...
Here is the lid with the paint on it
the lid must have sat somewhere and collected leaves and whirly birds and it was crusted on....
Phoebe decided it looked good and ate it before I could clean it out....
Here is the lid all cleaned up...
the bowl flipped over and ready to begin
I started cracking the vents loose with my favorite PB Blaster
Here is the bowl after heating and trying to spray over cleaner and scraping the paint
Once I got some of the paint scraped but realized I needed something else I decided to pull the legs off and the wheels off.
More pictures to come......
Brian