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Sorry if this topic is taboo, but has anyone had success with nail polish remover altering printed parts? I have a project in mind which requires 8×16 tiles in white but the only ones available have the hockey pattern on them. I tried nail polish yesterday and I get no results. Brasso will be the next step.
I’ve never used nail polish remover for that. I have used it to dissolve superglue, including Lego pieces that I’d superglued to wood. It turns out that it doesn’t take long to apply enough nail polish remover that it starts dissolving the Lego as well, it gets soft and malleable and you can easily bend it with your hands, so I never did that again.
I tried Brasso about a year ago and it works. There’s a couple problems there though, one is that enough Brasso will also dissolve Lego, so you can’t work it too hard. Another is that using Brasso dulls the surface of the piece, so it never looks as bright and shiny and new as it did. I found it especially noticeable on transparent pieces.
I also found the Brasso takes stuff off pretty quickly but I’ve run into pieces where Brasso has virtually no effect. Presumably this means that Lego used a different printing technique that is immune to Brasso, but I don’t know enough about it to have any idea as to why.
has anyone had success with nail polish remover altering printed parts? I have a project in mind which requires 8×16 tiles in white but the only ones available have the hockey pattern on them. I tried nail polish yesterday
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I have used it to dissolve superglue, including Lego pieces that I’d superglued to wood.
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I tried Brasso about a year ago
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PAINT THINNER! OR LAQUIRE(spelling is hard) THINNER!!!!!!! Just watch out it will melt the ABS and cause streaks, but if you are quick about your work, just apply the thinner(s) to a soft cloth and wipe in a downward motion until its gone, ur good.
Lacquer thinner is not surprising, that shit’s evil (but it’s awesome, I use it all the time).
When I was little I accidentally sandblasted the print off my aquanauts when playing with them in a sand-pile. I wouldn’t recommend that though as it scratches the shit out of them. Although I agree with Josh, you’re “barbarians.” >=DI’ve used Brasso to customize a few minifigs. Stay way from the nail polish remover, it will just dissolve the plastic. Rinse the parts off and let them air dry. If they have lost their gloss, you can use a 1200 grit sanding stick to buff a shine back onto them.
And Matt, I could start a thread about non-Lego uses for Lego. Hehe. Here’s few hints:
Look at the “slopes” behind the rear pilot on the 1/72 Gunstar I’m working on:
I had acrylic custom cut to make what will eventually be a set of cement stairs for the 1/6 model of Brandon Lee’s the Crow figure I’m working on. To assemble the steps at perfect 45 degree angles, I made a jig out of 1×4’s. Only 2 got super glued to the inside of the acrylic steps. But they worked great for this application. 🙂
I’ve used a pencil eraser to get rid of small amounts of printing before. It can take awhile to completely get the printing off, but it doesn’t have the corrosive properties of Brasso 😉
project in mind which requires 8×16 tiles in white but the only ones available have the hockey pattern on them
The dang hockey plates are even impervious to paint thinner. I guess LEGO designed the 8×16 hockey plates to withstand a lot of bashing so they must have clear-coated them with something.
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