The easy way to remove Paint from Lexan

[mycrors4]

Yep, easy.. costs about $5 in TOTAL and about 4 hours for a full 1/8th scale buggy body

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=085nJyj4TBM&feature=player_embedded#!

[bondo]

not TOO bad but 4 hours is quite a bit of time to be running back and re-applying every 20 minutes.
the one thing that i didn't see in his stack-o-chemicals was straight up acetone.
he has laquer thinner in there but that's a generic (loose) term for any derrivitive of tolene,xylol,methyl-ethyl keytone,acetone and a few other noxious chemicals depending on brand.
i just stripped a Revo shell the other night with straight acetone in about 20 minutes.
the only problem was i couldn't get that last little bit of colored residue without running through another 2 cans of acetone and another 3 rolls of towels.
i'm willing to bet though that if you burn through the majority of the paint with the acetone and finish up with a 20 minute soak of the Dot4,you'll have a **** near perfectly clear shell in under an hour.

[texan_idiot25]

Acetone is amazing stuff. I used our concentrated window cleaner from work, which is mostly acetone, to strip tint off both the CRX and CST10. Literally peel the stuff off with minimal scraping. The truck's pieces came off in one piece pretty much.

[lol]

Some bodies will melt with acetone. (:

[bondo]

Some bodies will melt with acetone. (:

acetone is perfectly safe for poly-carbs.
poly-styrene,styrene,acrylics and butates will desolve with acetone wich is why i've never suggested it for model,Xmod or mini-z bodies but it works wonders on lexan.

[mycrors4]

well, i guess acetone does melt some bodies, but i guess it can be used:
but it is in the failed products section
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0hFq92_yeo

[bondo]

well, i guess acetone does melt some bodies, but i guess it can be used:
but it is in the failed products section
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0hFq92_yeo

and given his unnatural choice of 15 "solvents" used to strip paint(most of wich i could tell you would do absolutely jack squat given the nature of most) and the fact that he had to search youtube to find a stripping agent,i can tell you that this guy knows little to fook all other then pushing a nozzle down.
i wouldn't even have to test mineral spirits to know that it won't do chit to strip anything other then wet paint from your brushes.
the simple fact that he uses acetone to clean his hands is ABSOLUTE proof that he is uneducated and has erectile dysfunctions.....
my guess is that he tried stripping with acetone the same way he did with the DOT4.
i simply soaked a towel and rubbed the paint off. easy as that.
the shell was already ripped up so it didnt really matter if it got ate up by a solvent but it held up.
i got the paint off quick as chit.
and like i said, the only thing stopping me from having a perfectly clear,re-paintable shell was the fact that once you start smearing around loose paint dissolved with acetone,it tends to make a smeared mess wich was a mess i was unwilling to deal with at that time.
again, couple that mess with the DOT4 and by all logical thinking,you should have a clear shell within minutes as opposed to hours.
but hey, if you wanna go with the advice of someone who can hardly complete a sentance and has to try bear dung to find out it doesn't remove paint over someone who JUST did it then by all means,opt for the guy with stinky fingers simply because it says URC.com in the lower corner of the viddy....:roll_eye:

[mycrors4]

but hey, if you wanna go with the advice of someone who can hardly complete a sentance and has to try bear dung to find out it doesn't remove paint over someone who JUST did it then by all means,opt for the guy with stinky fingers simply because it says URC.com in the lower corner of the viddy....:roll_eye:

some "guy"?
have you even been to his website? seen what he does? dont think im sticking to his decision because he owns a website, thats fine if he owns a website, i could care less if he didn't, but the thing is, he tried, it never hurts to try.
he never said acetone doesnt remove paint, he said it does, but he said it also damaged the body by deforming it in one way or another. im sure acetone does remove the paint, as it is a very strong chemical
though, him cleaning his hands with it still puzzles me, i certainly wouldnt do it lol

[lol]

Jang is one of the most experienced RC'ers and most respected too. He knows what he is doing.

[bondo]

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f3/SadistikGraffix/one%20tenth%20scale/DSCN2102.jpg
wow!!!
i sure am glad i used acetone to strip this shell...
i like the way it turned into a puddle before my eyes..

FWIW,this shell has about 6 hours on it and it still looks just as good as above.
so,i ask you,are you gonna houndog some dood just because you and every other painting noob buys into his rants?
or are you going to believe the proof posted right infront of your eyes??

[lol]

Who paints on the outside of lexan?

[bondo]

Who paints on the outside of lexan?

the people who have about an hour to burn waiting for multiple other projects to dry and happen to have a thrashed revo shell sitting infront of them....duh..:bigwink:
did we not catch the part about not wanting to deal with a smeared mess?

[mycrors4]

i never said it wont work, Jang didnt either, but acetone is not known to be safe for lexan bodies
oh and btw, the rear bed looks a bit deformed, it might just be me tho

edit:
just noticed that the bump there is for the rear pipe, my bad

[lol]

Well then, I can crash into your body and scrape off that paint. :)

[GearHeadV8]

Who paints on the outside of lexan?

Bondo does and alot of others do. I used to do it with certain bodies that i could not get the paint off or if its gonna be a basher and i dont wanna waste the time or money for striping paint.

[lol]

Bondo does and alot of others do. I used to do it with certain bodies that i could not get the paint off or if its gonna be a basher and i dont wanna waste the time or money for striping paint.

That does not look anything close to a basher body.

[GearHeadV8]

That does not look anything close to a basher body.

yeah but remember who your talking about. When bondo says its a basher the paint job is still better than most peoples best. He is a amazing painter so if he is gonna paint something hes gonna make it looks sick regardless

[lol]

/facepalm

[bondo]

Well then, I can crash into your body and scrape off that paint. :)

do you bother to read the posts between your meaningless ramblings?
here, lemme go ahead and quote myself for ya...

FWIW,this shell has about 6 hours on it and it still looks just as good as above.

other then the body being ripped off from multiple 6-10' verts,the paint is i dentical to what you see above.
maybe some exclimation points would help...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lol]

FWIW, no comprehende.

[bondo]

do they come stock all kilterred to the side like this??
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f3/SadistikGraffix/one%20tenth%20scale/DSCN2122.jpg
still looks decent right?
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f3/SadistikGraffix/one%20tenth%20scale/DSCN2114.jpg
now lets go through some of the cracks since you seem to think that this is a decent shell.
most were there when i got ahold of it,a few were opened up more by full bore runs at a 4' tall dirt pile with 4 different angles carved into it.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f3/SadistikGraffix/one%20tenth%20scale/DSCN2115.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f3/SadistikGraffix/one%20tenth%20scale/DSCN2116.jpg
it takes a pretty massive hit to bend back a body shim+thick pin,it takes an even bigger hit to rip the other pin off comepletely...
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f3/SadistikGraffix/one%20tenth%20scale/DSCN2117.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f3/SadistikGraffix/one%20tenth%20scale/DSCN2118.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f3/SadistikGraffix/one%20tenth%20scale/DSCN2119.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f3/SadistikGraffix/one%20tenth%20scale/DSCN2120.jpg
and out of all that thrashing,this was the worst of the damage to my paint.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f3/SadistikGraffix/one%20tenth%20scale/DSCN2121.jpg
i'll also go ahead and add that this was done on sand,gravel and dirt.
any sliding done on concrete is going to make you paint look like crap wether you have a lexan clearcoat or not.

[lol]

http://www.drivereducationbrisbane.com/Images/learn-2-drive-handbook.jpg

[mycrors4]

a bit off topic
how did you paint the car with all thise cracks, and have evrtything line up so well? or were the cracks after the paintjob

[bondo]

a bit off topic
how did you paint the car with all thise cracks, and have evrtything line up so well? or were the cracks after the paintjob

once you take the shell off the mounts everything kinda pops back into place,sorta..
the painjob isn't anything special really,i just had time to kill and a shell infront of me.
there's little detail in the stripes and the whole thing took me 20 minutes from base to clear.
i shot it with black on the underside so the scratches would be less noticable,shot the top with black base,laid in loose tiger stripes,pulled a bristle brush across a few and then shot the clear.

back to the original topic though,i masked all of the existing stickers so if you look at the clear borders of the stickers,you can see how it's reletively black underneath but clouded and slightly pink from the previously mentioned residue.