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MM Acrylic/Tamiya Tape/Residue-Help Please

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  • Member since
    August 2008
Posted by Voidses on Saturday, August 30, 2008 2:16 PM

This is of topic!!! 

''When I tried it I didn't concern myself with the amount!  I poured some gasoline in a bucket and threw the car body in with it.  When I came back a few hours later there was nothing but styrene goo in the bucket.''

oh! that sounds unniceSigh [sigh]   Something similar happened when I tried acetone as a ''decal setting solution''. It snuggled down wery wery well I must say. lol!

I live in Europe so I guess I'll try the local companies y thanks for the directions 

Wonderfull it worked out

over and out 

I attack sharks when I smell them bleed

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    January 2004
  • From: USA
Posted by MusicCity on Saturday, August 30, 2008 6:42 AM

 Voidses wrote:
I bet you are right, gasoline is agressive stuff. I guess the ammount I use evaporates before it can attack styrene/paintWink [;)]. That goo goone stuff, What is it and where to find it? Would feel better not pouring gasoline on my modelsLaugh [(-D]

When I tried it I didn't concern myself with the amount!  I poured some gasoline in a bucket and threw the car body in with it.  When I came back a few hours later there was nothing but styrene goo in the bucket.

GooGone is available at just about any variety store around here.  Everything from Walgreens to Walmart carries it.  I've tried it on many surfaces and never had any problems, but I always check in an out-of-the-way place to be  sure.

Bob, glad it worked OK for you.

Scott Craig -- Nashville, TN -- My Website -- My Models Page
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    November 2003
  • From: Nashville, TN area
Posted by bobbaily on Saturday, August 30, 2008 5:27 AM

Scott-Thanks.  I had some GooGone, tested it on my 'paint mule' (an old orange juice plastic jug that has been primed and used for airbrush testing/practice) and no ill effects on the acrylic.  Used it on the model, rinsed with distilled H2O and all seems to be well. 

Thanks again.

Bob

 

  • Member since
    August 2008
Posted by Voidses on Saturday, August 30, 2008 3:15 AM

I bet you are right, gasoline is agressive stuff. I guess the ammount I use evaporates before it can attack styrene/paintWink [;)]. That goo goone stuff, What is it and where to find it? Would feel better not pouring gasoline on my modelsLaugh [(-D]

I attack sharks when I smell them bleed

  • Member since
    January 2004
  • From: USA
Posted by MusicCity on Friday, August 29, 2008 7:55 PM

 Voidses wrote:
Hi! I have used regular gasoline with greate sucsess on enamels. Should be OK with acrylics, but I recomend to test first.

GASOLINE!?!?!?  Yeah, I would certainly recommend that you try it on some scrap first.  I tried it on a car once when I was a kid and had nothing but a puddle of goo left.  I would NOT recommend that you use gasoline because it will dissolve styrene.

Best thing I can think of is GooGone.  It will remove the adhesive residue but might wreck the paint to.  I've never had it mess up paint but that isn't to say that it won't.

Scott Craig -- Nashville, TN -- My Website -- My Models Page
  • Member since
    August 2008
Posted by Voidses on Friday, August 29, 2008 6:27 PM

Hi! I have used regular gasoline with greate sucsess on enamels. Should be OK with acrylics, but I recomend to test first.

Good luck! Smile [:)] 

I attack sharks when I smell them bleed

  • Member since
    November 2003
  • From: Nashville, TN area
MM Acrylic/Tamiya Tape/Residue-Help Please
Posted by bobbaily on Friday, August 29, 2008 5:38 AM

Hey all.  I'm in the process of painting a bf109 for the Battle of Britian GB and I am using Model Master acrylics.  On one of the areas that I masked off, using Tamiya tape, there is some tape residue left after pulling the tape off.  That is the first time that that has ever happened with either Tamiya or 3M tape.  I was a bit surprised, but I digress....

Any thoughts on what I can use to safely remove the residue?  Worst case is that I can mask off the area (a small area) and repaint if any of the paint is removed in the process, but I'd really rather not.

Thanks

Bob

 

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