OK i know it's been asked before but, What the best, safest, cleanest way to remove aristo paint?
Dave
PS Dont use a dremel with a sanding disk to remove lettering, wire wheel dosn't work eather
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Are you talking paint, like on a shell, or pad printing, or other?
For the pad printing, the most asked question, alcohol on a q tip rubbed gently seems to work.
Body painting is tricky, sometimes brake fluid, but it sometimes destroys the plastic.
More specifics will help.
Regards, Greg
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Actualy both in some case's, but mostly pad printing. Lite sanding removes the numbering but not the lettering, my first repanit of the year looks good if you apply the 100 foot rule.
Dave; not sure if this helps but when I want multiple numbered cars when the mfg only makes a single car number I carefully scratch out parts of the number using the tip of an A-xacto knife. For example the number 8 can be modified into 0, 3, 6 or 9; if needed I touchup using an extra fine tip paint marker.
Have fun, Rob
I have good luck with soda blasting with a home made blaster I'm always looking for quick tricks or better ways TNX....jc
I've had luck with SuperClean degreaser from Walmart on Bachmann lettering.
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TJ Lee
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Greg suggested alcohol, and he is 100% right. I don't know about Aristo, but I found out accidentally how to remove lettering from a Delton Doozie rail car. I had been using a rag for cleaning glass, using methylated spirits. I put it down on the bench, then rested the Doozie on it while I did some minor detail work on one side. When I picked it up the lettering was mostly on the rag rather than the car side. A quick wipe with the cloth removed the rest of the lettering, but the green base coat was undamaged.
I generally do not try to remove the base coat of paint, as anything strong enough to remove this coat will cause the plastic underneath to go soft. I remove all lettering, spray a very fine grey or red primer, usually from a cheapo spray can, and then apply the final coat. Keep everything thin and light or you will lose the detail such as planking or window mouldings.
Good luck, and post photos of your efforts.
Mick
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SP 4449 I have good luck with soda blasting with a home made blaster I'm always looking for quick tricks or better ways TNX....jc
I would love to know more about the soda blasting and how you remove lettering with it and how good of a job it does, etc.
Bob
Hello - I just completed a re-decal (is that a word?) on an Aristo Dash9. I tried the decgreasers, rubbing alcohol and others to no avail. I finally used clear brake fluid. I applied it with q-tips so it was only on the lettering/printing. Here is where it gets tricky. If I waited for the lettering to start to bubble it was almost tooooo long! I found if you put it on, wait until the first sign of "lifting" starts to occur, then scrub off what you can with clean q-tips. Follow this with a quick scrub with a wet (water) paper towel so there is no residual brake fluid on the car. Reapply and rinse until it is all gone (usually 4 applications, and if you remove the fluid in time, each time, no damage was done to the paint underneath. Hope this helps. Trent
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