More paint Stripping

Friday Evening and all day Sunday was spent stripping paint.
I don't have the use of a sand blaster yet.
Once I do it may get easier.
I did pick up paint stripper and it seemed to have worked O.K.
There was 4 layers of paint.
It was still time consuming but it was a bit easier. I still needed to sand and wire wheel the surface metal to remove some of the nicks and scratches that years of service will leave.

 

 

                                   This is the last of the four. I hope to be priming it tonight.

 

So I wanted to remove the ceiling handle and raise it about four inches. After cutting the bolt and 17 washers, I found that it was all welded anyway.

This should be fun.

Its a quite and lonely place , late on a Sunday.