Oven cleaner works good on water based paint.
Spray thick, wrap in plastic bag, leave overnight, rinse off.
Spray thick, wrap in plastic bag, leave overnight, rinse off.
Removing Paint from Plastic (finally, a decent solution!)
Ok...after years of destroying little painted plastic pieces and settling for buying new ones, I did a little research into methods for stripping paint from plastic without damaging the plastic itself.
I turned to reading about painting and repainting model cars, since those guys have to deal with this problem quite regularly. As it turns out, there's a lot of methods, but most of them will change the appearance of the plastic and you'll have to re-coat it in the end anyways.
However, I did come across one product that eats paint but does not eat plastic (at least, not noticeably). It's Castrol Super Clean Degreaser. It's a clear purple liquid that chews through paint (and fingers, so be careful), but doesn't affect plastic. I went to home depot and bought some generic degreaser which contained the same chemicals. It just has to have the active ingredients as follows:
2-Butoxyethanol
Sodium Hydroxide (Lye)
It cleaned a regular coat of paint off of submerged plastic parts in 4 hours, and a heavy coat of paint in 8 hours. Just make sure you wear gloves and eye protection when using this stuff. It's pretty nasty on your flesh. (ie: Lye eats skin) For heavy coats of paint, you can speed up the process by periodically scrubbing it gently with a soft toothbrush.
Hope that helps you guys in your restorations!
I turned to reading about painting and repainting model cars, since those guys have to deal with this problem quite regularly. As it turns out, there's a lot of methods, but most of them will change the appearance of the plastic and you'll have to re-coat it in the end anyways.
However, I did come across one product that eats paint but does not eat plastic (at least, not noticeably). It's Castrol Super Clean Degreaser. It's a clear purple liquid that chews through paint (and fingers, so be careful), but doesn't affect plastic. I went to home depot and bought some generic degreaser which contained the same chemicals. It just has to have the active ingredients as follows:
2-Butoxyethanol
Sodium Hydroxide (Lye)
It cleaned a regular coat of paint off of submerged plastic parts in 4 hours, and a heavy coat of paint in 8 hours. Just make sure you wear gloves and eye protection when using this stuff. It's pretty nasty on your flesh. (ie: Lye eats skin) For heavy coats of paint, you can speed up the process by periodically scrubbing it gently with a soft toothbrush.
Hope that helps you guys in your restorations!
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^ before i clicked on the link, i figured it was a way of hiding bodies using lye..lol
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