Pirate Wench
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Post by Pirate Wench on Jan 29, 2005 9:45:41 GMT 12
No not the kind that involves spangled gstring and a floor to ceiling greased pole!
What I am wondering is what you all use to strip the paint off things. I use brake fluid on plastics and acetone on metals, and find both do a reasonable job, but I realised I have never actually stripped anything that had greenstuff in it so I'm wondering if acetone affects it and if so what is a better option to use.
btw acetone works great on superglue (it dissolves it and makes it into a gummy goo) so if you are anything like me and glue your fingers together or to the desk or anything else just use a bit of acetone (otherwise known as nailpolish remover!) to soften the glue. It also works wonders on those trash brushes that you accidentally left out without washing, or have gotten a build up of paint around the ferrule.. I wouldn't use it on my best brushes, but when you have a brush that is pretty much history anyway the old acetone dunk and swirl (dip the brush in acetone and gently swirl it against the palm of your hand) does wonders to breathe new life into it... warning, i've not tried this with synthetic brushes! then again if it's trashed who cares give it atry right?
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Post by PitYak Studios on Jan 29, 2005 9:53:39 GMT 12
Brake fluid on plastic figures? cringe
Not sure how gs would be affected, but my gut feeling would be not at all.
I use acteone on metals too, but i've never bothered stripping a plastic, I either paint over them or chuck them out!
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Post by PitYak Studios on Jan 29, 2005 9:55:00 GMT 12
stripping, models...
My wife's going to ban me from my own board!
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Post by Aaron on Jan 29, 2005 10:05:38 GMT 12
I recently asked this question on another forum for plastics and got told break fluid was the best stuff. So I went and bought some, now it didn't damage the plastic at all but i had to do a fair bit of scrubbing to get it clean, the other thing Ive tried and prefer is Simple Green. I find it works better on plastic than breakfluid (maybe I got the wrong brand  ) but if something has a great deal of black on it simplegreen will discolour much more quickly than breakfluid (plus it smells awful!) Ive been using oven cleaner on metal models with reasonable success but its a bit of a scary business and I really dont think I'll try it again. Acetone will be the next thing I try. PITYAK! If you're ever throwing out plastic models let me know I'll pay for postage and you can send them my way. |
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Pirate Wench
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Post by Pirate Wench on Jan 29, 2005 10:13:12 GMT 12
I used break fluid because it was what I had, but simple green sounds like a good option too, and I can also clean my kitchen with it as well!. Actually now you have me thinking about the new range of orange based cleaners, some of those come in concentrate forms.. must try them out
Oven cleaner *shudder* did you use a caustic formula or non caustic? (caustic makes you cough like crazy if you accidentally inhale some of the spray but works so much quicker) I've had problems with oven cleaner on my aluminium baking sheet.. it pitted it quite badly so i guess aluminium and oven cleaner do not go together. I wrapped the element in tin foil once to protect it while I sprayed the oven and the foil disintegrated when i went to remove it, it just fell away into little piles of flaky stuff that looked similar to paper ash. I'd be a little wary of what it could do to a mini after seeing its effect on aluminium
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Post by Aaron on Jan 29, 2005 10:25:30 GMT 12
I can honestly say I could see no visible damage on the model after using the oven cleaner. It was used on several old models lead I think, what ever it wasn't the "white metal". It was definately non-caustic but the problem was it needed to be scrubbed and even after washing I was pretty nervouse about flicking oven cleaner/water about the place.
Do you need to scrub the model after its been dunked in brake fluid and how long did you leave it? I tried for about a week and still had to scrub the paint away... although gently scrub would be a more accurate description.
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Pirate Wench
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Post by Pirate Wench on Jan 29, 2005 10:53:17 GMT 12
I've always had to scrub no matter what I used. I don't think there is any such thing as a magic eat it all away stripper.. maybe some kind of acid? I remember cleaning pennies when I was a youngster in some kind of acid that my friends father had in his garage for welding. Anyway for stripping I use an old toothbrush to flick away any loosened paint, or if I can't find an old one, my husbands toothbrush  and carefully pick the paint out of recesses with a pin, being very careful not to scratch. What I found is that several -dunks- for shorter periods work better, leave it in the brake fluid for say 12 hours, rinse off flaked paint and give it a light scrub. Then return it to the fluid for another 12 hours |
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Post by Aaron on Jan 29, 2005 11:00:38 GMT 12
Damn looks like I am doing it right.
Ok what about Coca-Cola anybody tried that?
I used to clean pennies with Coke when I was little maybe it would work. I heard the US highway patrol carry around a bottle to clean blood off the streets and that if its being transported in concentrate the truck has to have a hazardous warning sign... but then that could all be BS... Have to try that when I get home.
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Fatrix
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Post by Fatrix on Jan 29, 2005 11:02:30 GMT 12
it's true. Coke is highly corrosive. Coke truck drivers use it to clean their engines.
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Pirate Wench
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Post by Pirate Wench on Jan 29, 2005 11:54:43 GMT 12
haha, I saw this recently on myth busters on discovery. It's two guys that take urband legends and myths and actually repeat them to see if it could be true or is in fact just a myth
the coke was interesting, they did several things with it, soaked a steak, soaked a tooth, used it to clean up blood and used it to degrease and polish chrome. It didn't really affect the steak, it stained the tooth a really icky brown, when used on clothing to get out a grease stain all it really did was stain the clothing brown I think it was helpful in removing the blood but it didn't degrease an engine, though it did a great job of cleaning up the paint and polishing the chrome on an old junker (they used coke and aluminium foil to polish it) be interesting to see what affect it has on acrylic paints
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Post by PitYak Studios on Jan 29, 2005 12:14:46 GMT 12
i used to use coke to clean the carbs on my bike - 30mins in carb clean or overnight in coke has the same effeect.
It'll also polish a dull copper penny left in over night.
They're not myths, i've done them both.
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MongrelFish
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Post by MongrelFish on Jan 29, 2005 20:10:34 GMT 12
For me, I've found that mineral turpentine, yes turps, works well on metal figures, but completely melts plastics beyond repair, well the last plastic I put in turps came out lookin like a pile of molten slag...
Just get a small glass full of turps and lleave your minis in overnight, the turps'll change colour and thats normal. The next day take them out and give them a soft scrub with a nail brush or something. Good as new!
Turps also does wonders for clogged up brushes, but make sure you rinse them well afterwards as the turps residue can affect your paints.
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G-nome
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Post by G-nome on Feb 3, 2005 18:21:57 GMT 12
Turps is good.
Be careful that the glass you use is actually glass and not plastic so that when you put a bunch of chaos screamers of tzeentch in it on your table with all the rest of your army all ranked up neatly in a most impressive manner the bottom of the clear plastic cup will not melt and leak turps all over the card table ruining the material and melting all the bases of your warriors and daemons to it in a black smelly sludge the stink of which takes a week or more to dissipate.
Cos it could happen.
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Post by PitYak Studios on Feb 3, 2005 18:34:49 GMT 12
heh. I once decanted some liquid poly into a polythene container, then woke up the next morning to find it was actually a polystyrene container.  |
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Pirate Wench
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Post by Pirate Wench on Feb 3, 2005 19:07:10 GMT 12
Turps is good. Be careful that the glass you use is actually glass and not plastic so that when you put a bunch of chaos screamers of tzeentch in it on your table with all the rest of your army all ranked up neatly in a most impressive manner the bottom of the clear plastic cup will not melt and leak turps all over the card table ruining the material and melting all the bases of your warriors and daemons to it in a black smelly sludge the stink of which takes a week or more to dissipate. Cos it could happen. think it would be safe to use a plastic one if I was wanting to strip bretonnians ? *grin* sounds like you had a nasty accident with turps yes? |
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) but if something has a great deal of black on it simplegreen will discolour much more quickly than breakfluid (plus it smells awful!)
and carefully pick the paint out of recesses with a pin, being very careful not to scratch.
