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Quick update I've got a lot of time in these winches but they are starting to get towards re-assembly. Here's the latest, one of my break boxes is primed. Masking the data tag turned out really well. Of course the lid is steel not aluminum but it seems to have taken the primer well.

Update: here is a pic of primed parts after wet-sanding with #400 sandpaper. Used Duplicolor self-etching primer.

As requested. The first pic is still not quite done, but very close. Pics 2-4 show a process. The last pic is after 2 sessions of stripper and thoroughly rinsed.

Right--I'm working on 40-year-old winch bodies that are already dinged up, scratched, etc. Plus they had 2-4 different colors (layers) of paint showing. They will look a lot better when I'm done, I feel confident, and no worse for wear. (obviously I have no reason to scrape on sensitive areas...

I've been scraping with a putty knife and following up with a wire brush by hand, not seeing any ill effects so far. And I already used a wire brush in a drill on the other end before I tried the stripper. The parts I'm working on aren't exactly free of marks to begin with.

Right. I was planning on using a self-etching primer from NAPA. We've used it often on aluminum-based vent pipe flashings in our roofing installations. The Dupli-color green cap stuff has worked best.

I'm having good luck with paint stripper from Lowes. It's a slow process: apply, wait, scrape, wire-brush. But it's doing the job.

Tag with interest. I was wondering how to clean up winch bodies before re-painting (they are aluminum also).