The EZ Camper is kind of…ugly looking. It has what looks like a silver rattle can paint job over a thick coating. When I first saw the bus I thought that it had just been painted too many times, but a guy at a gas station told me it looked like trailer home roofing paint. After looking at this post at thesamba.com I began to have hope that maybe there might be something decent under all that thick stuff.

We bought generic oven cleaner, steel wool and aircraft stripper. After a few tries with the oven cleaner and a thin film of the aircraft stripper, nothing was happening. I then applied the aircraft stripper on thick with a brush and began to see some action. I had to use a scraper to remove the thick putty-like coating, and took at least two coats of the stripper. After most of the putty stuff was gone, I could apply the oven cleaner and use the steel wool to remove what was left. Underneath the putty coating was a thin layer of blue, and then what I thought was the OG pearl white paint. I have my doubts now, because the white coating was thin and looked like it was applied with a brush.

This will take a very long time, but if I can get rid of this nasty silver coating, the bus will look a lot better, even if its patchy.

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