Anyone ever remove enamel with a needle scaler? Efel Arden Harmony question.

I bought an Efel Arden Harmony non catalytic wood stove with brown enamel finish. This stove came out of Florida and it looked better in pictures than what arrived on the shipping pallet. While the stove did not have much use judging by internal parts condition, the humidity appears to have worked itself into the crazing of the enamel and in some places the enamel comes off easily.

The enamel is pretty good on the front door,front plate and top. The load door side is the worst as it appears to have the thinest coating of enamel and that where it's sloughing off. Thinking about salvaging the top,front and door as is then maybe getting an pneumatic needle scaler and stripping the side panels, then painting them.

Anyone ever remove enamel this way? I am reluctant to have this stove sandblasted because fear of removing too much iron while blowing off porcelin.

One of the tie rods that's one the 4 corners of the stove which connects the top plate to the sides and the feet is broke during transit. It's a threaded rod about 650 mm or 25.5" and has a 13mm nut that hold the legs on. Anyone know where to find metric threaded rod? I found replacement parts from Europart out of UK already but, since it's not an exotic item want to try to find the tie rods here.

I am very pleased with the build quality of this Belgian stove and am excited to run it someday.

 

Can't offer anything that would be helpful bushman. But I remember the "deck apes" using needle guns on the ships during Navy days and you definitely want ear protection...and eye protection, of course.
Do you plan on removing all enamel and just painting from that point? Maybe an option would be to just remove what you have to and cut a line just to remove enough enamel where you could blend it in with a paint to enamel transition?

Regarding the threaded rod/nuts, try checking a local hardware or even auto supply store. Very common to have threaded rods in stock.

 

Mc Master -Carr might be a source for threaded metric- most tines at the local level that is all SAE threads.

 

Today I spent some quality time with this stove. Started a fire in it to kill off the Florida bugs, found a weird long legged spider while poking around, got the top up to 500 degrees and it was kicking off some nice heat outside. Hope all the egg sacks were destroyed, Northern Michigan can not handle another outbreak.

I may be just a guy who feels more comfortable with a painted stove. Enamel is too bourgeois for me.

 

needle guns can be pretty aggressive, I would be concerned about breaking a thin spot on the casting......