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Chemical reaction with enamel paint thinner...
Old 06-30-2009, 10:20 PM #1
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Default Chemical reaction with enamel paint thinner...

Greetings!

Never ever use Testors enamel paint thinner to remove enamel spray paint from a flexible Microman hand.

Bit of a warning to those who customize.... I am in the process of customizing a figure and had just painted some hands from a microman figure. These hands were a rubbery plastic--hard yet slightly flexible. First paint was a Krylon brand formulated for plastic. It worked well. Then the second coat was a white enamel. Well, the enamel wasn't drying, so I started wiping it off. Then I thought I would get clever and use some enamel paint thinner... big mistake. The paint thinner took off the enamel, and also the first layer of rubbery plastic. More wiping and more of the plastic would slime right off. It obviously had a chemical reaction and turned that rubber into a slime that would come off on my fingers, and everywhere.

Can not recover. Four good pairs of expensive Microman hands are destroyed.
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