white/yellow haze

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CJMunnich

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I have been trying to strip 2 skillets that look like they were painted black. After soaking them in a lye path for a month, only some of the paint came off. I have had them in the e-tank for 3 days and the remaining paint will not budge and there is a white/yellowish haze all over them.

With previous pieces, I have scrubbed the haze off, only to have it return once the piece has dried.

What can I do to remove the paint and avoid this haze?
 
CJ....Hilditch has given you the correct solution. I had a Griswold Patty Bowl that someone had painted twice, (once with orange paint and again with black paint). Like you, I let set for almost a month in lye and it had very little effect on it. Finally got some paint remover and after several coats and a lot of muscle I got it removed. Never want to do it again.
Here is the link I posted the before and after pictures which you may have already seen.
http://imgur.com/a/KrrCm
 
Lye need some grease to work. I've fished leaves and a paper towel out of my lye tank days later unscathed, just wet. The most it will do to paint or enamel is dull it.
 
All,

Thanks for the help, I appreciate it. I have visited the booth that I bought these from for the last few years, but never got one because he was overpriced and all the pieces were painted. He reduced his price, so I bit. This will be a learning experience.
 
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