Anyone ever remove rattle can paint?

[Oldmandan]

I use cooking oil to remove spray paint from my hands and arms. Might work on your plastic?

[wilderness medic]

Thanks. Think I’ll start with the mildest stuff suggested and work my way up.

[Echidin]

Goo gone, citistrip and graffiti remover all have worked for me on metal components. Haven’t tried any of the above on polymer.

[hermosabeach]

In a class a shotgun that worked fine on day 1, stopped working day 2

The shotgun had a polymer follower that got sprayed with powder blaster - almost the exact formula of carb cleaner / brake cleaners

The follower got mushy and when compressed by 5 shells and the spring, the follower mushed and squished.


A Glock frame seems to be OK

Aftermarket polymer / plastic parts- without knowing they are safe to use with a chemical, I would not use the chemical

[ar15barrels]

Brake cleaner is for amateurs. Seriously it takes a lot of aggressive scrubbing. You can spend a couple hours scrubbing paint off with brake cleaner

Nobody has mentioned the trick with brake cleaner yet...

You put the parts in a ziplock bag, spray in brake cleaner and close the bag to let the brake cleaner work without drying up.
The paint literally wipes off with a rag.
No scraping required.

[CandG]

Nobody has mentioned the trick with brake cleaner yet...

You put the parts in a ziplock bag, spray in brake cleaner and close the bag to let the brake cleaner work without drying up.
The paint literally wipes off with a rag.
No scraping required.

That's exactly what I did when I needed to strip rattle-can paint off some AR lowers recently. After a couple hours in the brake cleaner, I just rinsed all the paint off in the sink, I didn't even need to wipe it with a rag.

[shafferds]

Use light glass bead and be done with it.

[wilderness medic]

[RTE]

I forgot to mention, I use Easy Off Oven cleaner in the yellow can....to remove painted on lettering on fiberglass boats.
Always a good idea to Test on a small area, might cut down on the elbow grease.

Works pretty good at removing graffiti on a cinder block wall too.