My search skills are lame. I have heard of people sandblasting paint from plastic shells with good results. My memory is they use baking soda and it doesn’t harm fine detail and add on parts. This sounds good since I have a fair amount of equipment that needs to be stripped and repainted and the alcohol dip isn’t doing it (using the 91, not 70). Anyone able to tell me, lovingly and respectfully, where to go? Um, that’s where to go to find out more on the technique and equipment used, and possibly a good video tutorial.
Thanks
A friend has a Badger 260 sandbasting unit. He uses baking soda to remove lettering/reporting marks before he changes the numbers. The price was under $40 - You will need a compressor to power it. There are other brands of ‘air erasers’ also available.
Do a ‘Google’ search on AIR ERASER or SANDBASTER and you should get lots of ‘hits’…
Jim
A Google search, unfortunately, returns all the wrong kind of hits. Ads by retailers or eBay, videos using them to etch glass or other uses very different from what I intend. I was hoping to find a review, write up, walk through, video for the technique and it’s pitfalls. And I do have a compressor and airbrush although I’ve painted 30 items max with it over the past 30 years.
Here is a link to the Badger 260 abrasive brush. Unfortunately it doesn’t offer any information about using alternative abrasives.
http://badgerairbrush.com/Badger_260.asp
Dave
Harbor Freight has them for 27.00 just don’t buy the material they have for it baking soda is the best way and like they said in the previous posts you do need a small compressor, Jim.
After starting this thread I found these. (typical for me):
http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12196
http://forum.atlasrr.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=59989
Hopefully these will be useful to others. I have order a badger 260 based on them.