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(...) <snip> heehee Tom I hope that was a Timmy : ) Ya'll might want to try a product called nevr-dull, it comes in a small blue tin can and has the "polish" suspended in a kinda cotton wad. you ought to wear gloves of some type but it takes the (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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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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<snip> (...) post (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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Please be careful with this stuff. I used Never-Dull on a sloped piece and it completely melted the texture from the slope. I would recommend not using Never-Dull, it is too strong, and stick with Brasso. -Nick (...) wear (...) post (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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Hi Nick, Thanks for the additional info. I haven't used nevr dull on a textured slope, just the smooth transparent pieces and a smooth black piece from the police headquarters. I just tried it on a stars wars x-wing smoked canopy and it came out (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Is there any reason why you attacked the canopy? That's one piece where I like the printing... (...) Agreed, but I prefer printing to stickers (and I especially prefer printing to STAMPs) for control panels and the like. Stickers would have (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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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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