How to strip enamel paints?

[AceCobra1]

Any suggestions what the cheapest way to strip it would be? I have left my models which has a coat of enamel paint in a bucket of bicarbonate of soda and none has came off lol... I know i could prob. use brake fluid but it might be expensive!

[stevenoble]

Originally Posted by AceCobra1

Any suggestions what the cheapest way to strip it would be? I have left my models which has a coat of enamel paint in a bucket of bicarbonate of soda and none has came off lol... I know i could prob. use brake fluid but it might be expensive!

Mr Muscle or any other type of oven cleaner.Put the parts you want to strip into a plastic bag, spray in a good quantity of oven cleaner to cover them and then seal the bag so it is airtight.Leave overnight and scrub off the paint with an old toothbrush under running water the next day.Repeat if necessary on stubborn spots, but it should come off in one go in most cases.

[tonioseven]

Brake fluid or 91% Isopropyl rubbing alcohol

[Adam Baker]

Brake Fluid, Easy Off Oven Cleaner, Castrol Super Clean. All are methods Ive used w/ pretty good success.

[hiergehts]

Besides the methods mentioned, I've used ELO (Easy lift Off) from Floquil / Testors with good luck.

If you use a glass bowl to contain the part(s) being stripped, you can strain and pour it back into the bottle and reuse it.

HTH

[stevenoble]

From a personal point of view I don't like using brake fluid.I find it tends to make the plastic brittle and sometimes when I paint it again the colour of the plastic bleeds through the paint layers.I've had a few red plastic molded cars that have made my white paint pink when I had previously stripped them in brake fluid.I think it must affect the plastic somehow.

[Adam Baker]

I have noticed that brake fluid tends to leave the plastic brittle, its a method Ive decided to not use in the future for this reason.

As for the color bleeding through, thats just a problem w/ a model thats molded in red to begin w/. You have to put some kind of coat between the red plastic & the paint. One method that seems to work, is putting down a coat of silver paint over the red plastic, and it seals it so that it doesnt bleed through to the light colored paint.

[Didymus]

Originally Posted by AceCobra1

I know i could prob. use brake fluid but it might be expensive!

You can get enough to strip several cars for $1.35. And it doesn't get "used up," so you can use the same fluid over and over.

My advice: Start saving now!

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