I picked up a bottle of paint stripper from B&Q and was astonished to find it was in a plastic bottle, not a tin.
The fluid stripped the paint fine, no problem at all. OK, anything else would have been something of a surprise but the key thing is what it didn't do. Have a look at the bases. They were on the models the entire time. The fluid stripped the paint but hasn't touched the plastic!!!
I think I have found a way of stripping plastic models.
I generally use good old dettol on metal, plastic and resin with no issues yet encountered bar stinky fingers!
ReplyDeleteAs as aside, I work in chemical manufacturing and our paintstripper goes into plastic gallon jerrycans... its the stuff with citrus in thats a real ballache, for example our lemon disinfectant sends the plastic container tissue soft within a matter of weeks.
Interesting Phil. ave they changed the formulation? The old stuff I used to use melted plastics into goo.
DeleteI use a pine disinfectant too but this does seem jolly useful.
ReplyDeleteI never had much luck with pine disinfectant. I found it very slow.
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