Ok so i wanna strip some models down to repaint i have my brake fluid, i was just wondering how long do they have to be in the fluid?


Thanks in advanced

Well I would check up on them every hour or so.

Ya man, check them at least every hour. "Better safe than sorry" <--- god I sound like my mother

i used to use brake fluid to strip plastics. Had to leave them at least a day then you have to scrup off ALL the paint if any little traces of paint are left it will completely ruin all paint you put over top of it. it like eays thru and softens the paint you put on top if you dont properly scrub and rinse the figs. i would dump them in before bed then check them in the morning when you wake up, or dump them in the brake fluid before school then check when you get home. they should be fine for hours on end. but test a single mini or bit first to make sure, i have not used brake fluid since arround 1999 and i dunno how the new plastic formula reacts with it.

Simple green is good, safe wont eat your skin and is environmentally friendly, but takes a couple days to get working.

castrol superclean degreaser ( or the generic version "purple power") is what i have finally ended up using on all figures after14 years in the hobbydrop the figs into a jar of the degreaser and come back 45 mins to an hour later and the paint comes right off with a light rub of a toothbrush. Also with this product it is environmentally friendly, but will dry out your hands, tho less so than brake fluid. ( i have actually had brake fluid make the skin on my hands flake and peel off for a couple days after stripping figs)

Linkage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ja0DSvTMgI

Umm im in the uk and have never heard of this simple green, what is it?
But that links handy thanx

I use simple green, its a basic cleaner that you can buy at most stores. Look near the mops and or cleaning fluids.

I use simple green and usually I soak the mini's for about 3-6 hours and thats all they need.

Solid...does it take the primer off to?

Right now I use Castrol SuperClean when I strip and it works AWSOME on metal minis but plastic is another story. When I use the superclean it takes the paint off but the primer it will not take off...on mini's

sorry all so from the UK lol, Is it bleach based? might be similar to what we have here called FLASH, I was going to whack some of my tau in break fluid tomoro but am having second thoughts, I take its for use generally on kitchen floors and worktop surfaces?

Yeah it takes primer and paint off, it takes everything off. Sometimes it will take glue apart, sometimes

I have had mixed results with simple green. It will debond super glue. If you paint first then glue, the glue gets stuck to the paint and when the paint gets desolved there is nothing left for the glue to be bonded with so the fig falls apart. here are some photos with my exp using simple green on forgeworld resin. I'll do a before and after of a marine cleaned with castrol super clean later today.

this is the simple green i used:


a demon hunters resin door after about 12 hours and a rough scrupping from a toothbrush:


same door after 2 and a half days and a stiff toothbrush:

found a candidate for a CSC bath. 2 primer coat of sandible autobody primer 3 layers of paint another layer of primer and another 2 layers of paint and a coat of pigmented future floor care( basically just a clear acrylic use for laying down on floors to make them shiny).

The product:


The victim: