Nail polish, paint remover, cloudiness

[rghouse]

So I’m trying to clear out my windows on the GEN eight. The nail polish worked excellent to remove the paint but it melted the lexon a little bit. So I’ve been wet sanding and polishing and almost have it clear. I don’t wanna do that again. I see Tamaya has a paint remover can anybody else recommend a solution from the hardware store maybe that won’t melt the plastic??

 

[ScaleLifeNewbie]

So I’m trying to clear out my windows on the GEN eight. The nail polish worked excellent to remove the paint but it melted the lexon a little bit. So I’ve been wet sanding and polishing and almost have it clear. I don’t wanna do that again. I see Tamaya has a paint remover can anybody else recommend a solution from the hardware store maybe that won’t melt the plastic??

I would try paint thinner. On my stock TRX4 Body I used paint thinner and goof off. It worked, but took awhile to do half the body. If just doing windows, you should be fine. NOT LAQUER THINNER! ITS TOO STRONG!

 

[mikemcE]

I always start with 91% rubbing alcohol, used to be easy to get.
An old styrene builders trick is acetone. BUT you have to dilute it 20% water80% Acetone. Test on a scrap dropped in. I use this to remove most lacquers and primers on resins and plastics.


Hang up and Drive

 

[QuesoDelDiablo]

Diluted acetone.

Somewhere between 80/20 acetone/water and 50/50 acetone/water. Start with weaker concentrations and go up.

 

[Cyclist]

Definitely don't use full strength acetone (like I did), turns the plastic super cloudy. I haven't be able to get rid of the cloudiness yet.

 

[Jeff6x6]

Can you replace them with new packaged plastic items...then shoe goo ? I make sun visors out of plastic my screwdriver set came in.

 

[F-150Highlift]

I am in the same boat. My blue body turned out great using Traxxas nitro fuel. No cloudiness, nice and clear but the orange body I just did turned out different. Cloudiness in spots and not super clear. I am trying the novus plastic polish. Number 2 did nothing so I am going to try number 3 which is a bit more aggressive and then go back to 2. I will let you know the results.

 

[rghouse]

So I have now also tried 20% nitro fuel, dot 3 brake fluid, and aircraft paint remover. Much harder to remove the orange with nitro fuel but less cloudy. I will try diluting the acetone.

Also, I have a headlight restore kit with sanding and buffing equipment for a drill. It got rid of a lot of the cloudiness but the lexan seems to have some other marks that are permanent running through the material.

I ended up cutting out the driver window and it looks great. Much easier than ^^. Besides, who wheels with the windows up? Other side Is going to get a half or 3/4 roll down look I think. Onto to the rear side windows . Might try wet sanding.

 

[Omsk]

I've used the Tamiya paint remover in the past on a SCT body.
It works, but it made the lexan brittle in some areas (corners).


A recent video from "Tamiya Legends" trying it out : https://youtu.be/Efc9AknSUhE