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Spray Paint Gone Awry - Need Help
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Tue, 25 Nov 2003 03:45:16 GMT
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!Warning the following post contains graphical description of the mutilation of
hundreds of Lego parts!
My wife was working on some shelves, and she decided to spray paint them. The
wind was blowing a gentle breeze through the windows ... the paint was red ...
one of the boxes with unsorted pieces was open ... there were sets on display on
the lower shelf. A fine mist of red paint wafted through the air, settling on
the unsuspecting bricks. Some of the white parts are now light pink, tan base
plates are now orangish, transparent parts are now slightly less transparent,
gray bricks now are ... well reddish gray. Hundreds, if not thousands, of parts
are effected with a light coat of red paint.
I’ve read about Brasso, and Nevr-dull, and would like to hear any comments that can be offered. How much elbow-grease is required? Do you think that cleaning a thousand parts is realistic with either of these? Are there other options?
Thanks for helping,
James
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| Sounds like the wife should be putting in the elbow grease. ;) -Aaron "James" <thug@nc.rr.com> wrote in message news:How2FG.1yCq@lugnet.com... (...) mutilation of (...) The (...) ... (...) display on (...) settling on (...) base (...) transparent, (...) (21 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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| I'd recommend Nevr-Dull because Brasso is too abrasive. Nevr-Dull will leave the glossy finish of new bricks and remove paint quite quickly. It's great for removing paint from prepainted pieces, so fresh paint like yours should be even easier. Dave (...) (21 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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| "James" <thug@nc.rr.com> wrote in message news:How2FG.1yCq@lugnet.com... (...) mutilation of (...) The (...) ... (...) display on (...) settling on (...) base (...) transparent, (...) parts (...) that can be offered. How much elbow-grease is (...) (21 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I seriously don't think cleaning 1000 parts with Brasso is at all realistic. My understanding is that you're looking at at least a minute or two per part if you are really lucky. I would identify the rare parts, brasso those, and replace the (...) (21 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I've found that Formula 409 does a good job at taking off paint as well, and it's not as destructive as Brasso (honestly, I've never used Brasso on Lego parts, so I don't know how destructive it really is--just going by other posts here). It (...) (21 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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| As Larry said, cleaning this many parts with Brasso would be an enormous job and it wouldn't work on anything textured, like roof bricks, and would take the printing off any printed parts. My suggestion would be to take some of the more disposable (...) (21 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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| thug@nc.rr.com (James) wrote in <How2FG.1yCq@lugnet.com>: (...) With some types of paint, the mist can be wiped away with a wet cloth (or washed away in water): it's just dry 'dust' which has settled on the bricks (instead of the wet paint+solvent (...) (21 years ago, 1-Dec-03, to lugnet.general)
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