Bioshock
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Apr 17, 2013 13:26:24 GMT
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Has anyone got any advice for removing paint from a flexible rear spoiler?
My 323 lower wing is peeling in patches and I want to get all of the paint off to redo it, but I need something to remove the paint without screwing up the wing itself. I've tried googling without any success.
Cheers.
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unitybonez
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Apr 17, 2013 14:01:07 GMT
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Either 2 minutes job or a huge PITA!
On a Supreme steering wheel i bought it took me countless hours with a rag soaked in dichloromethane so that i could melt the paint without meltin the vinyl grip.
Then i had a Vespa plastic carter thingy where it basically peeled off effortlessly. What sorta plastic is it?
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Bioshock
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Apr 17, 2013 15:17:02 GMT
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Hard to say, it's the flexible type found on XR3's and the like and as was the way in the 90's, its been colour coded and its starting to flake off in patches. looks friggin awfull.
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Apr 17, 2013 15:45:19 GMT
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Going at it with a pressure washer might remove quite a lot of it.
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Apr 17, 2013 15:49:52 GMT
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i had the same problem with my rs turbo wing, pressure washer took care of most of it, used an attachment that allowed me to mix some sand in with the high pressure water, took it off quite quickly yet left the rubber completely undamaged.
HTH
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unitybonez
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Apr 17, 2013 16:04:33 GMT
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Going at it with a pressure washer might remove quite a lot of it. Yes yes, i was just goin to suggest that. I removed some paint off of a MKII escort with one LOL |
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Apr 17, 2013 18:01:16 GMT
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Going at it with a pressure washer might remove quite a lot of it. Yes yes, I was just goin to suggest that. I removed some paint off of a MKII escort with one LOL I managed to remove part of a Metro rear valance with one (OOPS). |
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Apr 17, 2013 18:47:06 GMT
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Try paint thinners?
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Bioshock
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Apr 17, 2013 21:27:50 GMT
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Thanks guys. I think I'll have a bash with the pressure washer and go from there
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sparkyt
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Apr 17, 2013 21:44:13 GMT
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Leave it in the back garden for a few years the paint just falls off mate
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Bioshock
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Apr 17, 2013 22:09:56 GMT
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I've had a flexible spoiler for an R5 Turbo in the back garden for the last 15 years and it looks the same as when it left the factory  |
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mikeymk
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Apr 19, 2013 15:31:38 GMT
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Nitromors isn't the same stuff as it used to be, but when i wanted to strip the bumpers and arches back to plastic with the good old stuff about five years ago i was told it wasn't a good idea. The fear was it'd melt the plastic..
It didn't, it was fine. I tried it on an old bit of acrylic and it damaged that, but the polycarbonate or ABS type bumper plastic just laughed at it. It didn't touch rubber either (stripped wheels without taking the tyres off).
I know a lot of these spoilers are more of a foam, and i don't know their resilience to Nitromors. But you could just dab a little fingertip splodge of it on the inner mounting face by the fixings, keep an eye on it for a minute to see if it starts to eat the surface, if all is well then that'll save you a lot of time, effort, and possibly even damage by other methods!
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