Simple green multi purpose cleaner

[Bengoodall]

Where abouts in the nottingham area can you get this stuff, I have a friend coming down to france from there, and Im trying to get her to bring me some so I can batch clean a heap of miniatures.

But she cant find it.

Help

 

[usurpator]

I live in london and I looked erverywhere (and on the net too) and could not find it
sorry I cant be more positive.
Try the in freeze/in boiling water trick, it works wonders with metal... if you need to clean plastic... argh, I don\'t know!ossessed:

 

[Shawn R. L.]

Does simple green melt plastic? Are there other houshold cleaners that strip paint?

 

[freakinacage]

apparently dragonsreach swears by dettol. i\'ve got a resin mini that i want to clean that i\'m going to try it on

 

[lizcam]

give me an adress and I\'ll send you a gallon. It\'s in every store here in the USA

 

[matty1001]

Dettol with pine though.

And acetone is good for plastic and resin, but I wouldn\'t leave resin in for long, just dip and brush, don\'t want to lose all the little details. Plus you can buy acetone very cheap in boots.

 

[usurpator]

Ive been told to try the product to remove false nails on plastic mini, I bought a bottle but havent tried yet.
Anybody knows if it\'s safeN

 

[johnboyjjb]

Originally posted by Shawn R. L.
Does simple green melt plastic? Are there other houshold cleaners that strip paint?

Simple green hasn\'t melted any of my plastic guys. Some were in a 50/50 dilute for over a month with no damage and some have been in pure green for 2 days (so far) without any damage. Paint didn\'t come off with the dilute as well as it did with the pure.

 

[Dragon Forge Design]

Look for a product called Castrol Super Clean..should be sold in Automotive DYI stores. Its made by the Castrol motor oil company. Its a bio degraidable parts cleaner/degreaser that will strip paint off miniatures in less than a day. Works as well on plastic figures as it does metal. I swear by the stuff. Washes off with water.

 

[darthfoley]

Said it before, I\'ll say it again...nothing works better for stripping minis in my experience than Dawn Power Dissolver. Safe on plastic, works like a charm. Dunno if it\'s available outside the US, however.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by freakinacage
apparently dragonsreach swears by dettol. i\'ve got a resin mini that i want to clean that i\'m going to try it on

Pine Sol = Dettol with Pine Scent.

Use the Real Dettol not the Store Generic brand which is generally more diluted and not as effective.

Nail polish cleaner (Acetone) is very effective over short areas, but remember It\'s A Poison.
The fumes can be very bad for you and even ingesting a tiny amount can make you very ill. (Dizzyness Nausea, Spots before the eyes, Loss of conciousness.)
So by those descriptions you can guess who was the stupid ***wit who mixed up the brush he\'d been cleaning a mini with with a brush he paints with. Even after 10 minutes out of the Acetone there was still enough residue in the bristles to waste an afternoon for me.

Hence I make very sure to use only GW brushes for cleaning with Acetone and clean them throughly before using them on anything else. (Or just bin\'em).

 

[freakinacage]

Originally posted by Dragonsreach

The fumes can be very bad for you and even ingesting a tiny amount can make you very ill. (Dizzyness Nausea, Spots before the eyes, Loss of consciousness.)

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