At 09:55 AM 5/29/97 -0400, W. R. Gibbons wrote:
>On Thu, 29 May 1997, Scott Williams wrote:
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>> I've got an early '64 Midget that I'm just beginning to work on, and the
>> interior and a small part of the top are covered with white overspray. I
>
>> bought it from a guy who was painting the car in 1976, wasn't happy with
>> the way it was turning out, and just stuck it in a barn unfinished and
>> disassembled. Does anyone out there have any recommended methods for
>> removing white overspray from red interior panels, dash, etc.? I'm hoping
>> in particular to save the dash - I haven't seen one for sale anywhere,
>> don't imagine it would be really cheap. Maybe it could be recovered? I
>> don't know. I'm on a shoestring budget here, I've got a wife and 3 kids
>
>Lacquer thinner will probably remove the overspray, but at the very least
>it will leave the vinyl dull. At worst, it will really do a job on it.
>Try the thinner in a hidden area to see what it does.
>
>If lacquer thinner is too harsh, probably the best of the cheap solutions
>is to buy vinyl paint and recoat the vinyl. See the ads in the supplies
>section of Hemmings Motor News.
>
> W. R. Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
> Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
> gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8629
>
>
> There are less harsh thinners, that may not damage the vinyl. Ditzler
makes a product called Ditzol? a cleaner, sovent, that I use all the time
to remove over spray, even on paint. I don't know if it will work on 20
year old overspray.
Mike
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