Simple Green for enamel and laquer?

EBergerud

I hope Gunze thinner isn't terrible thinner because I just bought a bottle to go with a bunch of Mr. Color paints I bought: someone on the boards said that Gunze wanted Gunze thinner for airbrushing and not Tamiya.

Well, in all fairness, it's a terrible thinner for Tamiya and Testors/PolyScale.  Never tried it with G-S's brand of paint.

I figured that since it did such a bang-up job of cleaning those paints, it might be a useable thinner.  But, it's not.  It doesn't thin them, so much as break them down into clumps.

-Fred

Just tried Goo Gone on Testors black enamel: let it sit for about ten minutes and rubbed it off with a q-tip. If you want it really clean you'd probably have to do it twice. I hope Gunze thinner isn't terrible thinner because I just bought a bottle to go with a bunch of Mr. Color paints I bought: someone on the boards said that Gunze wanted Gunze thinner for airbrushing and not Tamiya. So I added it to my growing collection of paint thinners. At least it's cheaper than ancient Greek coins or rare stamps.

Gunze Sangyo Mr. Color Thinner - It's a pretty terrible paint thinner, but it'll strip off every paint known to man, with no harm to the styrene.

I've used it on acrylics, enamels and industrial spray paints (dupli-color and krylon).  Nothing withstands this stuff.  It stinks to high heaven and isn't exactly cheap, but boy does it work.

-Fred

What did you hvae to do to get it to strip enamels?  right now its doing an unceremoniously horrible job at it.

how long did it have to sit in the simple green?

Im probably gona get it from amazon.  I get free 15$ amazon gift cards for answering surveys and I got 2 of them lieing around, just gona get that and a cheap car kit or two

And made into an art form by some vendors on Ebay and Amazon. Just bought a (hopefully accurately) highly regarded AMT 48 scale P40N for $9 and paid $10 for shipping. And, let's face it, I bet a lot of poor souls out there join me in thinking: "gee, free shipping if you spend $50 - better get another Zero." I spent $100 at Dragon to get free shipping the other day (although they did have some genuinely terrific deals). Only a fool could pass up a bargain like that.

 If you're looking for Goo Gone it's at any hardware store. And it works really well for doing the things its supposed to do. Well worth $3 for a small bottle: could strip 50 kits with it.

Eric 

Dont you love when online stores have the cost of shipping higher then the cost of the item.

I've never used Simple Green for paint removal although it's been a fixture in the porch for years. I do employ another hardware store product called "Goo Gone" that's a stain remover. Works very well at least for acrylics. Put the stuff on with a Q-tip, let it sit for a few minutes and paint comes off with a rag. No damage to plastic. I stripped an entire deck off HMS Rodney a few days back and the whole procedure took just a few minutes.

Thanks guys, right now my only experience is using thinner to strip paint and that definitely damages the plastic.

Me too for enamels, and it hasn't harmed the plastic so far.

I've used it to strip enamels with OK results.  Never tried it on lacquer.

Regards,  Rick

Strips enamel off styrene fairly well, except for metalics...