removing glue?

[kyuuketsuki]

hi,

i glued on a part onto the car's body and i need to remove the part.
is there a way to soften or remove glue so that i can remove the part off, in a way that the car's body does not get damaged?

i used tamiya glue if this helps.

thanks

[cyberkid]

Hrm.. glue is much stronger than the paints or the plastic we use. The plastic cement literally melts the glue chemically then dries out, leaving the 2 (or more) joined parts welded together. So basically, anything that will soften/remove the glue will most likely destroy your work. I'm not sure if this works for plastic cement, but for C/A (super glue) you can pop it in the freezer and the parts will seperate themselves. One thing using this method though, if you are putting a part of your model that has say 10 different parts all 'connected' by C/A, this method will seperate ALL or at least most of your parts.

The last idea that I can think of is the gently and slowly pry the parts apart with an X-acto. This WILL cause some damage but most should be easily fixed.

[MPWR]

I've used the freezer technique to remove parts bonded with CA, epoxy (aluminum parts, haven't tried it with plastic), and plastic cememt. Give it a try.

[mickbench]

If you've used Tamiya thin cement, you can apply the same cement over the join, and the cement re-melts the parts joined, and you can pull them apart. It's not clean, and it leaves a mess, but it does get them apart.

If you've used someting like Revell contacta, or tamiya standard, it does fuse the two parts into one, and it's VERY hard to get apart, unless there was some paint on both sides, and it breaks apart really easy...

It's not called plastic weld, or plastic cement for no reason..

[Whumbachumba]

Don't you need to wet the parts you want seperated first before you do the freezer trick? So the water can freeze and push it apart, right?

[cyberkid]

Originally Posted by Whumbachumba

Don't you need to wet the parts you want seperated first before you do the freezer trick? So the water can freeze and push it apart, right?

I've never wet any of the parts on my tries. And if you want to use water to push the parts apart then you would have to have the part you want seperated submerged in water.