Learned the hard way

[Risko]

Hey guys,

don´t know if this point is new for you, for some of you maybe, and I really hope this helps you to avoid the mistake I did.

For some new projects I have thrown some wheels into DOT4 brake fluid.
2 plastic and one resign set.

Guess which one was the resign one?



Yep, unfortunatly the nice Enkeis from SAS are soft like butter in the sun from 24 hours taking a bath in brake fluid....

Has anyone a spare set of these for me maybe?

[freakray]

I say use them to build a diorama of a severly burnt out shell of a car.

[gionc]

Originally Posted by freakray

I say use them to build a diorama of a severly burnt out shell of a car.

Dunno know, Ray, that your scooby have styrene rims ROFL

BTW thank a lot Risko: I never heard that DOT do those to the resin, good to know.

[MPWR]

Originally Posted by freakray

I say use them to build a diorama of a severly burnt out shell of a car.

Nah- it's certainly not worth ruining a body for.

But what would be cool would be to do a dio putting them on a perfectly good tuner/drifter car, with smoked shreaded tires on them, having left four very dramatic black streaks. Call it 'Overdrifted' or the like. Add a couple of figures standing around with fire extinguishers and a stopwatch, and a driver figure with a big grin on his face.

[tonioseven]

I wish I could help but those were sold out before I knew they were even available

[Risko]

Thanks guys,

yes I´m still very surprised about this happening. I´ll keep them for a later diorama.

When I look at them, I can imagine that the material has memorized the torgue from the work with Proxxon/Dremel and the DOT has set it free.

[rsecho24]

Hey guys, so I have been reading this thread at least once a day trying to get up to par while I am trying to save up my pennies to get myself started back into modelling. So far, I have been understanding most of everything on here, however, why did you soak those wheels in DOT brake fluid? Then someone mentioned that they were glad that you forwarded your recent findings so that they don't do that to a body. So obviously, soaking parts in DOT brake fluid is useful for something, but what?

Again, thank you to everyone being so open about their experiences with modelling, I have been soo excited about getting better at everything so that I too can produce works of art nearly as good as ya'lls!

-Eddie

[Dboy23]

Eddie, from what I can tell it's good for plastic, like the plastic rims he got.

[klutz_100]

Originally Posted by rsecho24

So obviously, soaking parts in DOT brake fluid is useful for something, but what?

I can't wait till Andy answers that!

Eddie, DOT brake fluid is one of the methods used to strip/remove paint or chroming from models.. Some swear by it others hate it.

It is somewhat controversial as a method because DOT is actually very aggressive (read the label on the bottle) and sometimes can produce disastrous results as you can see above.

There are several other ways of stripping paint but the one used will depend on:
a) what kind of paint you are stripping; and
b) what has been painted (plastic, resin, metal etc)

Do a forum search with "stripping paint" and I am sure it will throw up a load of threads with a mass of info.