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| The topic has come up a few times and I've used the technique myself with great success. I recently bought a bunch of the NBA sets that were massively discounted. Along with the brick and plate, I found myself with piles of parts I would be hard (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Cleaning? Advice
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| (...) You can use the metal polishing product called "Brasso" along with a cotton polishing cloth (I use old t-shirt bits), and then wash the Brasso residue off of your bricks in some combination of liquid detergent (I use "Simple Green") and water. (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Experimenting with Brasso (tm)
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| (...) After seeing these posts, I went to the hardware store and popped $3.69 on a can of Brasso to test it on one of my hated UFO panels. It really does work--it's both a mild abrasive and a polymer-solvent, so it takes scratches out likely by a (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Experimenting with Brasso (tm)
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| Not easily. I used a Dremel on the lowest speed once on a minifig, it burned the plastic almost instantly, and I was using a plastic bristle brush! MAYBE a buffer at extremely low speed, with water cooling. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Experimenting with Brasso (tm)
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| (...) I agree with you about the stickers-vs-printing thing, but stickers for the quarter-hulls would have been terrible. Kids would have been very frustrated, because there'd have to be a number of individual stickers for each part. Not that I like (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: All hail Brasso!
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| Robert M. Dye wrote: [snip] (...) When I tried it on some clear pieces it removed the fine scratches OK, but it left the pieces cloudier than they previously were. Does anyone have any solution to this problem? /Eric McCarthy/ (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Brasso is for those of you who lack nailpolish remover. It works better, just soak for a few min, and out it comes clean. (acetone, or the replacements...works great on printed parts, that's how I cleaned up my MF's for the LUGNET stickers+ (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: cleaning transparent pieces
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| I used Brasso and a cotton rag and buffered all my scratches out. however some of the deepier ones were a pain. the improvement for me was still to use the Brasso however I am using a small buffing wheel on my cordless dremel tool. Works great. (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: UFO - Printed or Stickers?
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| They're printed. Brasso will take the printing right off without harming or discoloring the plastic. I noticed your address is .uk Not sure if they sell Brasso on that side of the pond, but if they don't, I would suspect that any metal polish would (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.space)
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| Brasso is a basic metal cleaner. I think people use it to polish silver, etc. You should be able to find it at most hardware stores, or maybe even discount stores like Wal Mart. (...) (25 years ago, 31-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Experimenting with Brasso (tm)
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| I don't know about with these two methods. What I used wasa soft gum eraser and rubbing alcohol. Get the eraser fragments embedded in some cotton, and you will be able to remove the decal without scratching. It took a LONG time to remove it, but (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Use Brasso to remove the faded white "planet" logo from an old space torso. =) (Or just take the arms off a yellow torso and put them on backwards, and give the figure a cape to wear to hide the logo on his back. -- jthompson@esker.com "Float (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| Did you wash them with soap and water afterwards? I had a sense there was an oily resdiue on them, so I wshed them. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Have you tried Brasso? I mean, if it works for LEGO.... :-) Maggie C. (who will not be held responsible if you try it and obtain disastrous results) (24 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) i don't think brasso will work... since the monitor is glass. someone else email me about some microfine polishing stuff called NicSand. I might try that. I only scratched it last night around midnight. thanks -chris (...) (24 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) [cut to shot of Bill getting caught licking a UFO saucer section clean...] Well, that's what *I'd* do, anyhow. Nothing like minty fresh UFOs! And what better way to test that toxicity thing? best LFB (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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