Pine Sol STORIES

[Itchy]

OK, i\'ve read dozens of threads about stripping and i\'ve desided to strip some pewter, some plastic and a little teeny bit of green stuff in Pine Sol. Figgering 8 hours in the Sol, then wipe with a soft brissle toothbrush.

Now, anyone got any stories of what could or has gone wrong with this idea? Not asking what you all use, that\'s been brought up enough times, wouldn\'t we all agree? Just want stories, and the more perfect they went, the more i want to hear \'em

 

[G-nome]

Boring!

You surely dont want to hear about the time I put a librarian in a jar of pinesol for a day then took all the paint off it, every single little bit with a toothbrush and then painted it really well.
You want to hear the horror stories! They are much more interesting. Like the time I put a bunch of chaos demons in a pot of turpentine to strip off the ghastly paint job. I left them for the day and got back to find that the cup was plastic and had melted and sunk onto the card table I\'d left it on. The models were caked in gloopy plastic at the bottom of the cup and it had leaked turps all over the table. The same table I had my new chaos army arrayed upon. All the bases were melted the table was covered in turps runny plastic and had to have the cloth cover taken off and the smell was just overpowering.
Much more interesting than the first story

 

[Legacy Account]

Or the time I decided to melt 2 kilos of Hydrogenated vegetable fat in a microwave. In a plastic tub. On full power. For ten minutes.

3 hours, one £300 microwave and an arse kicking later I got to feel sorry for myself.

Or the time I cleaned out a deep fat fryer. It was sparkling - great job. I went to fetch the oil to put into it - one of those big 10/15 litre tanks, and proceded to start to fill said fryer. I realised that I had forgotten to put the plug in the bottom when the oil started to leak over the top of my trainers........

I too have done the \'turps in a styrene cup\' thing - it took the varnish off my mothers dining table. My airbrush back fired and splattered the curtains once too. My most recent mistake was to knock over a pot of £5 catalyst booster before I had even used it. DOH! (It was on the kitchen counter too, and it\'s pretty toxic stuff. I\'ve been banished to the cellar now...)

 

[Cerridwyn1st]

Pinesol attempts

Can\'t say I have any mishaps to compare with Spacemunkie where stripping is concerned. I DID try to strip using Pinesol. The paint turned into this sticky, gloppy mess on the surface of the mini that was nigh impossible to remove, so now I stick with Simple Green.

I did drill through a bit and into my finger once. I was so surprised that I let the bit go. It started spinning on the dremmel, and thanks to the off balance force of it snapped off my drillbit.

Lots of cuts, burns and other fun stuff (have a nice knick on my left bird finger healing now, plus a couple burns from my first attempts with a new glue gun.)

The time my son tried to use normal CA glue instead of CA gel and three fingers together and four Dwarfs to my kitchen table...

My cat jumping on my painting table, stepping in a blister plastic of two-part epoxy, and my attempts to get the thing off her paw.

Getting ready to do my first Ebay sale (a small dragon), then dropping the darn thing and breaking its head off (still haven\'t repaired it; I was heartbroken).

Need I go on?

 

[Kingloser]

Originally posted by Itchy
OK, i\'ve read dozens of threads about stripping and i\'ve desided to strip some pewter, some plastic and a little teeny bit of green stuff in Pine Sol. Figgering 8 hours in the Sol, then wipe with a soft brissle toothbrush.

Now, anyone got any stories of what could or has gone wrong with this idea? Not asking what you all use, that\'s been brought up enough times, wouldn\'t we all agree? Just want stories, and the more perfect they went, the more i want to hear \'em

Dont put your plastic in Pine Sol it will become a goopy mess. I lost Leman Russ that way , I was about oh i dunno 8 or so years ago . It had the general shape of the russ but was the consistancy of silly putty. I ended up useing it as terrain droopy cannon and all. Pine sol is excellent on metals, make sure you was them afterwords thoiugh or paint amnd primer will have issues sticking

 

[WurzagUdUraZahuba]

Originally posted by Kingloser

Dont put your plastic in Pine Sol it will become a goopy mess. I lost Leman Russ that way , I was about oh i dunno 8 or so years ago . It had the general shape of the russ but was the consistancy of silly putty. I ended up useing it as terrain droopy cannon and all. Pine sol is excellent on metals, make sure you was them afterwords thoiugh or paint amnd primer will have issues sticking

Sounds like a pretty cool terrain piece though. I hope yo remembered to paint it all scorched looking.

 

[Sturmhalo]

Seems like another thread heading down a slightly different direction. Already had a \'worst injury\' type thread. Still, if you want a laugh ask Fizl about the superglue and the table.

 

[Fizl]

Ask and ye shall receive....

Sit down kiddies and learn from this tale...

Once upon a time a fair maiden had painted a rackham dwarven zombie. She had loved it and cared for it until the day she came to varnish it. Fate dealt a bad hand and made her pick up a can of primer so he had a lovely snow effect. After a few choice swear words the fair maiden stripped the figure that had taken her many many hours to paint and decided to start again as it was a christmas present.

The fair maiden sat at her glass table with the miniature in front of her. \"How shall I mount the figure so that I can paint it easily?\" she asks herself.
\"I Know, I\'ll glue it to the bottom of an old glass!\"
The young maiden finds the glass and her tube of trusty superglue.
She unscrews the glue lid, and gently squeezes the bottle to release a little of its magic. Fate was definately laughing his socks off on that day, because he didn\'t allow the fair maiden to notice that she had squeezed quite hard and that glue had dribbled down the side of the glass she was holding onto with her left hand and onto the glass table she was leaning on with her right forearm. This was of course until she went to put the glue down....

\"What the...?!?!?!?!?!\" She exclaimed as her right forearm wouldn\'t come off the table. \"I\'ll just put this glass down......down.....oh my god........\".

The maiden was in a sticky situation! Her left hand was glued to a glass and her right forearm was glued to the table. What should she do?
\"I know!\" Says the maiden, \"Nail Varnish remover will help me escape this\". She looks around the table.
\"Oh. Slight problem. Its in the bathroom.\". The maiden thinks again.
\"I know! I\'ll call my best friend! He has a set of keys, he can let himself in and set me free!\"
So the young maiden rings her friend. \"Hi Greg, can you do me a little favour? I\'m sort of glued to the table. cAn you come round with some nail varnish remover please?\"
\"*Snort* *laugh* pardon? Whats happened?\"
So the yuong maiden explained her situation to her friend in detail.
\"Well I\'m sorry Sharon, but I\'m not actually at home at the moment, and cant get back for a few hours!\"
The maiden is despondent. Her friend cant help her, and she cant carry the table to the bathroom. What else can she do? Then she spots the scalpel.
\"Ah ha! If I\'m really careful I can separate myself from the table with the knife and sort myself out from there!\"

20 minutes of very careful manoeuvering of a scalpel and a very thin layer of skin less later, the maiden is free from the table.

And the moral of this tale?

If you don\'t want to be glued to a table for 2 1/2 hours with no hope of rescue, watch what you are doing with the superglue!

Shaz

 

[SJB]

Oh boy! Paint stripper story time. I\'ve got one. And it contains both sadness and joy. Fully rounded

1999, just a few days before Golden Demon. I was working on a Skaven Mordheim Gang for the Open category (year before the official release, so was going off WD articles).

All going well. The display base was completed and all the figs were done save the Rat Ogre who was getting special treatment. I had basically made myself a mutant Rat Ogre building up greenstuff over a regular Rat Ogre. Now, back then I was none too familiar with greenstuff. Didn\'t come out too badly IIRC. Anyway, I started to paint it and it went hideously wrong (as tends to happen). Off to the dunk tank for stripping.

Note: My paint stripper is Cellulose based paint thinners, not pine-sol, but the effect is similar.

Fished the figure out of the stripper and found, to my horror, that the greenstuff had delaminated partially from the metal and that paint doesn\'t strip from green too well. Basically, trip to the bin.

So, what to do. Basic Rat Ogre instead. Phone local store. Out of Stock. It\'s Thursday afternoon so Mail Order could not Special Delivery one to me in time for the weekend (Sunday is GD).

Drastic Measures called for. There\'s a gap on the display base so no option of leaving the Rat Ogre out. All I had was greenstuff. Can you guess what happened next.

Between that Thursday afternoon and Friday night, I taught myself to sculpt. Steep learning curve I can tell you. All I\'d ever done, sculpting wise, was adding textures and bulk to figures. Never done anything like scratch anatomy, heads, legs, arms or whatever.

Pulled it off though. Saturday morning I had the green finished for a mutant, hunchback Rat Ogre with one arm (the one arm was characterful and had the advantage of speeding up sculpting). Only none green components were his fist and his tail (fist from remains of original Rat Ogre and tail from plastic Skaven).

Painted it on the Saturday and went to Gamesday the next day (Skaven gang was down to the last three or so but failed to place as the Open, at the time, had only one prize. Picked up a silver in vehicle though).

Not much paint stripper action in the story but, to get back on topic, due to a paint stripper accident, I forcibly had to learn to sculpt overnight. And I now owe my entire career to it

Steve B

 

[Sturmhalo]

Cracks me up every time Shaz!

lol

 

[Braveheart712]

Pinesol sucks!!!

I bought some \"new to me\" Sisters of Battle this weekend and wanted to strip off the craft paint that was covering them. I got home and went to the cupboard and I was fresh out of Simple Green, so since it has been recommended here on CMON I tried some PineSol. After an overnoght soaking and a vigerous scrubbing with an old tooth brush, I gave up, got in my car and purchased some more Simple Green like I should have to begin with. My Sisters of Battle are now craft paint free awaiting a good cat of primer then a decent paint job ( I hope). Pinesol is great for cleaning almost anything except paint from minis. Stick with Simple Green, I know I am!!!

 

[sniffles]

Don\'t have any Pine Sol stories, but Fizl\'s tale had me stifling the laughter so my coworkers wouldn\'t think I\'d gone mad. lol

Friend of mine has a similar tale of glue woe. He doesn\'t post here to my knowledge. Zora could help me out with details.

He was building a WH40K army to look like an American football team. He made a goalpost of plastic tubing and was trying to glue the pieces together. He poured the glue down the tube, hoping it would settle in the L-bend.

After a bit he tried blowing gently down the tube to help the glue dry. Something silvery shoots past his head, startling him.

He tried tipping the assemblage sideways to see if the glue was dry. Superglue shot down the tube and onto his shirt.

His eyes start watering from the fumes. He can\'t pull the shirt off over his head because it\'s glued to his chest hair and the fumes will be even worse when he pulls the shirt up.

He ended up with a ruined shirt. Luckily the glue didn\'t take any skin off, though he did get an unintentional chest \"waxing\".

My own horror story: I paint sitting on the sofa with a lap desk. One day I had my bin of paints beside me, and I had a bottle of black ink open to do some washes.

I managed to hit the lap desk wrong so that it flipped up and dumped the ink bottle into my paint bin. A puddle of black ink formed in the bottom of the bin.

The figure I was working on, which was nearly finished, fell into the puddle. So did about half a dozen of my paint bottles.

I also once went to spray sealer on a finished mini and grabbed a can of white spray primer by mistake. Then I wondered why my mini looked like she had a really bad case of dandruff.

OK, long enough post.

 

[Grey_Goat]

Alright, this isn’t a pine-sol story, but….

Superglue stories? Bring it on.

I was about 14 and putting together one of GW\'s old Rhino\'s. In some of these older kits, sometimes one or another of the parts gets a little warped and requires some persuasion to get the pieces to fit. I\'d already used up all my plastic glue, but had some of the really, really thin super glue on my desk. So I got the super glue, ran it on the inside of one of the sponsoons, squeezed the other half on....

And with a \'snap\' and a splash, I had my very own blob of superglue on my eye.

So I blinked.

Off we went to emergency to go and get the superglue out of my eye and eyelashes. Thankfully, I didn\'t glue my eyelids shut (the nurse said that sometimes happens).

All in all, I was pretty embarrassed.

 

[Mosch]

Whoa, glue in your eye is pretty bad, but try glueing your beard to your left foot

 

[G-nome]

Again you got to explain this one

 

[Mosch]

Well, I wrote foot, but it was actually my shin. I had a good look at my foot though. Story short: Open superglue drops out of my hand and hits my shin on the way down, flexible Mosch© doesn\'t bother to get up und just bends down in his sitting position, the rest is up to your own imagination

 

[Dragonsreach]

Grey Goat:

Superglue stories? Bring it on

Ok you asked.
A couple of years ago I was sitting at home watching the TV when my wife said to me \"Your glasses are filthy\" (\"Covered in gunk\" were the exact words!) So I took off the spectacles and proceeded to rub them on my shirt.
Broke the Frame, didn\'t I! Just on the top of the frame above the nose piece.
Out comes the super glue..and a fine and dandy job was done until I put the glasses back on. Promptly stuck the bloody things to my eyebrow!