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 Posted - February 22 2020 : 9:51:10 PM
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Need a cheaper paint remover...??? Anything out there??
I am using Scale Coat II but it is $18/bottle.
Is there anything cheaper out there to better to use....
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Posted - February 22 2020 : 10:38:11 PM
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| Super Clean is a plastic safe degreaser that removes most paints from models. Just wear gloves because it will pull all the oils out of your skin as well.
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Posted - February 22 2020 : 10:56:14 PM
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| Most of these guys use dot 3 brake fluid...
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Posted - February 23 2020 : 12:53:01 AM
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Had some luck with DOT 3. Don’t get the environmentally
safe stuff- it don’t work.
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Posted - February 23 2020 : 02:55:38 AM
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Almost any degreasing cleaner will strip paint. I use LA's totally awesome from the Doller Tree. And simple green is really good at stripping paint off the machine's at work.
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Posted - February 23 2020 : 1:38:30 PM
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Super Clean and 91% alcohol.
Depending on the model, either of these two usually works. There are some models that will react to one but the other will not faze it.
Sometimes on stubborn items I will alternate with both - soak overnight in Super Clean, then into the alcohol bath....repeat until clean.
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Posted - February 23 2020 : 4:36:07 PM
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| Dot 3 brake fluid is doing the trick for me. I'm wondering if dot 4 and 5 are stronger and would be more effective on other models though. Let me tell you, getting the paint out of diesel grills makes me contemplate suicide!
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Posted - February 27 2020 : 11:23:00 PM
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quote:Almost any degreasing cleaner will strip paint. I use LA's totally awesome from the Doller Tree. And simple green is really good at stripping paint off the machine's at work.
Originally posted by Bamos - February 23 2020 : 02:55:38 AM
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What is the best way to use Simple Green.
Is the shell totally immersed in it?
Solution strength out of the bottle?
Soaking time?
Anything else I missed?
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Posted - February 28 2020 : 04:02:42 AM
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I've used simple green. I submerge the whole model.
" Heck with counting 'em rivets, TRAINS ARE FOR FUN! Not called the Mad Scientist for nothing either!"
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Posted - February 28 2020 : 10:57:06 AM
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Easy Off oven cleaner...
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Posted - February 29 2020 : 05:42:57 AM
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I've used simple green. I submerge the whole model.
" Heck with counting 'em rivets, TRAINS ARE FOR FUN! Not called the Mad Scientist for nothing either!"
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Posted - March 30 2020 : 9:43:47 PM
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quote:I've used simple green. I submerge the whole model.
Originally posted by Redneck Justin - February 29 2020 : 05:42:57 AM
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I let the shells soak for a week in SG.... I thought the results were poor at best. So, I went back to the Scale Coat II remover. SG did loosen up the paint somewhat....
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 Posted - March 31 2020 : 7:36:01 PM
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quote:| I am using Scale Coat II but it is $18/bottle. Originally posted by AF Kid - February 22 2020 : 9:51:10 PM |
Because I've encountered others in past decades, I'm going to ask, you aren't using it once then discarding it are you?
In my experience since the 1980s, Scalecoat Wash Away, and the now gone Chameleon name, are good for multiple uses. Then strain through a coffee filter and use even some more.
On olive jar or similar is a good container to use for stripping most HO diesel shells, steam boilers, and boxcar bodies. Whether modern wide cabs will go in the jar is unknown to me since I don't model those.
N scale is a different story, 2 or 3 Superliner bodies will go in at once! (memory isn't exact on that, was the 1990s last time I did it)
Loco shells and passenger cars will be longer than the olive jar so I rubberband a plastic sandwich bag over top of jar to slow down evaporation and/or spills if jar might by chance get tipped over.
And often set the olive jar in a wider jar as further tipping prevention.
As for other cleaners, I've had success with Simple Green, Isopropyl alcohol of varying percentages, depending on how it interacts with the model's paint chemistry, as Crown Vic noted.
Have experienced, and seen, sometimes where a given alternate remover will strip either the paint or the factory lettering but not both.
Looks a bit odd when everything but the roadname is gone!
Sometimes the paint used will be a bit resistant even to the Scalecoat Wash Away, so immersing olive jar in a pan of warm, not hot, but warm, can increase the remover's effectiveness.
Right now I don't have anything being stripped to use as a photo illustration so words will have to do: after letting body shell soak for a while in the olive jar of Wash Away I will use an old toothbrush to scrub off the peeling paint right there in the jar so as to save that little bit of fluid from going down the drain.
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