I have an old Lionel die cast Porter type Hustler that I recieved years ago as a father’s day gift. I recently have been slightly updating it, knuckle couplers, an old Kemtron horn on the hood, handrails, and did a little bit of turning down the wheel flanges. I wanted to keep the color scheme and number, but have been trying to remove the road name. I’ve tried Micro-Scale and Solvaset on the lettering, but they don’t seem to touch the lettering. And I have started seeing the base coloring, the color I’d like to keep, on the tissue when I try to start wiping, so I have stopped. Anybody have any suggestions? Thanks.
The road name is probably printed on, that´s why decal solvents won´t work. I use my Dremel tool with a felt disc to gently rub printed lettering off and give the loco a new spray paint job.
Some Lionel lettering (I am thinking of their old 1960 vintage HO stuff) seemed to use a heat process of some sort and was in essence sunken into the plastic. Even if you removed the paint of the lettering the ghost of the lettering was still there, slightly depressed into the plastic. Your model is die cast metal if I read you correctly but again they may have used some heat bonding method.
Dave Nelson
I guess I’ll try the buffing wheel method. If I take off any of the base color, I guess I can use a two-tone color, since when I use this loco, it’ll be used as an industrial loco inside a factory property, rather than a yard switcher. Just like with the Life-Like Dockside I’m almost finished bashing into a fireless steamer. That’s going to be switching in a tableside coal storage area for an off-table powerhouse.
Thanks for the suggestions.