Nail Polish Remover

[Knin]

O i tried using this stuff for stripping off paint. How does it work, i got a soft paper and started rubbing the paint off. It works great but its too slow it takes me alot of time. Is there any faster ways of using nail polish remover for stripping paint off. Oh any other ways of stripping paint, greatly appreciated.

 

[WurzagUdUraZahuba]

Simple Green works great and you can just pour it out when you are done. Also it doesn\'t smell horrible like polish remover or paint stripper. Just soak any plastic or metal mini in it for a day or so, and then scrub it under running water with an old toothbrush. you may need to do this two or three times.

 

[Knin]

Where could i get simple green. i am in Australia, sydney.

 

[Fizl]

Instead of wiping the nail varnish reover over the figure, trying pouring some in a glas jar and letting the figure soak for a while. This should get the paint off much quicker

Shaz

 

[Einion]

Originally posted by Fizl
Instead of wiping the nail varnish reover over the figure, trying pouring some in a glas jar and letting the figure soak for a while. This should get the paint off much quicker

Most paint-stripping procedures involve a certain amount of soaking Knin, even with much stronger solvents like lacquer thinners it\'ll save you effort if you just let whatever it is work on its own, come back later and scrub the softened paint off with an old toothbrush (wear gloves to protect your skin if you have them).

Einion

 

[Ogrebane]

Just spray oven cleaner on it. leave for 1/2 hour (overnight is better) wash of with tooth brush (dont get them confussed) and done deal. If you want all the paint of it might take more than 10 minutes no matter what you use. As your an Ozzy then I suggest Mr Muscle.

So your a cockroach eh. How do Knin.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Nail p[olish remover is great for small areas that you need to claen back on an otherwise Ok mini.
Just use a \"Q-tip\" dipped in it and gently rub the area needing to be cleaned off. Should take you back to bare metal fairly quickly.

Otherwise try using Dettol (Which I\'m sure is available Down Under) Safe,r if slower and less chance of making your self ill from the fumes.

 

[Einion]

Originally posted by Ogrebane
Just spray oven cleaner on it.

Except for speed I\'d have to go with oven cleaner myself, or the basic ingredient (haha, no pun intended) sodium hydroxide.

Einion

 

[Patrick]

As mentioned, Simple Green has worked the best for me and I have tried all of the previouly suggested methods.

Simple Green All-Purpose Cleaner

I usually soak it in a tub or jar a couple of days and then use an old toothbrush to scrub it under the fawcet. Simple Green is bio-degradeable and safe to put down the sink. Brake Fluid, oven cleaner and nail polish remover - not so much.

 

[Modderrhu]

I tried acetone over the weekend... gadzooks, it\'s fast, and required no scrubbing. Caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) otherwise - it\'s cheap and, when diluted, is 100% environment friendly. Neither of these methods require much scrubbing - my primary gripe about other methods.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by Modderrhu
I tried acetone over the weekend... gadzooks, it\'s fast, and required no scrubbing. Caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) otherwise - it\'s cheap and, when diluted, is 100% environment friendly. Neither of these methods require much scrubbing - my primary gripe about other methods.

I agree Acetone is fast, but I don\'t really like to use it too much as it is really nasty stuff to breathe for too long
I made myself really ill once by not having enough ventilation and being too close to the mini who\'s face I was cleaning back to metal. Really bad dizzyness, nausea and shivers. Horrible feeling.

I\'m pretty sure that there are some serious long term effects to continuous exposure as well, but you\'d need to Google them for safety\'s sake.

 

[Modderrhu]

Originally posted by Dragonsreach
Really bad dizzyness, nausea and shivers. Horrible feeling.

That sounds like the time I sni... uhm, I mean some people sniff glue for that effect. Yeah, that\'s it.

A fair warning, Mike. Luckily I have very sensitive sinuses that react very badly to many organic solvents - I got a headache a minute after starting on the stripping.

 

[Einion]

Originally posted by Dragonsreach
I agree Acetone is fast, but I don\'t really like to use it too much as it is really nasty stuff to breathe for too long
I made myself really ill once by not having enough ventilation and being too close to the mini who\'s face I was cleaning back to metal. Really bad dizzyness, nausea and shivers. Horrible feeling.

I\'m pretty sure that there are some serious long term effects to continuous exposure as well, but you\'d need to Google them for safety\'s sake.

I don\'t want to encourage anyone not to take sensible precautions with acetone (or any organic solvent) but acetone is fairly safe to use in small quantities from the published data - higher PELs (permitted exposure levels) than many white/mineral spirits for example. Sounds like you\'re just quite very sensitive to it, I\'ve never had a bad reaction to it myself but I did have similar ill effects to the ones you describe a couple of months back when I was impatient and stripped off a figure using cellulose thinners in my workroom - never again!

Einion

 

[PaintMonger]

People tend to react diferently to difrent chemicals. I can stick my hands right in Zip-Strip (my favorite stripper) no problem but many people are burned by it. Acetone is the active ingredient in most polish removers and I DO NOT recomend its use without proper ventalation, a respiator and gloves. Acetone will also attack polyester resins, super glue and most plastics. Zip-Strip as mentioned is my favorite, it\'s fumes are not as strong but it also will disolve plastic. as a bounus it compleatly disolves all traces of super glue and will soften and lift Squadron putty. again plenty of ventalation and solvent resitent gloves are importent.