Friend has just bought a cheap (silver) 4x4 from an auction. What appeared to be dust all over the glass, etc. has turned out be over-spray from a really cheap 'n' dodgy bonnet respray. Anybody got an any ideas on how to best remove it?
thinners maybe?
or one of those paint scrapers you can buy that use a blade to scrape with. You have to be very careful not to scratch the screen doing this though - but i've taken the nato paint off the 101 windows like this.
very fine (0000 ?) wire wool ? Works for me.
Steve
In article , Tom Woods writes
Beware of this - they'll run off the glass and go places they shouldn't.
Water works adequately as a lubricant, and scrapers have done the trick for me in the past - even with masonry paint, which *should* stick to glass. If you can't find an actual scraper, try a single-sided razor blade (best), or failing that, Stanley knife blades or snap-off blades.
Regards,
Simonm.
House brick.
(check insurance first!)
;-)
Lee D
Duraglit or Brasso. Does the job perfectly. Hard work tho ;-)
beaded gel hand cleaner or gunwash thinners on a rag
On or around Thu, 24 Nov 2005 08:58:36 -0000, "Leopold Stotch" enlightened us thusly:
panel wipe or thinners, and be careful, or you'll end up removing it from the bonnet as well :-)
Indeed as already suggested the overspray can simply be wiped off using cellulose thinners or acetone.
However you must be aware that any spillage on the bonnet will remove or at least spoil the finish. If the paint is a silver it's probably a metallic in which case the finish will have a coat or two of lacquer, The lacquer will also be easy to wipe off because it will still be soft, especially as it is unlikely the bonnet or vehicle has been subject to oven baking which would make the paint (at this stage) almost impervious to cellulose thinners.
However this will work to your advantage because the overspray won't be oven baked so it will quite easily be wiped off.
Continuing to use a clean rag in the wiping off process so you do not re-contaminate the glass etc.
Steve.
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