Removing spraypaint from chrome

[petew]

What you are trying to clean is vacuum metalized plastic , which is the process for putting chrome on plastic.
If you use any solvents you will strip the chrome off, if you rub to hard you will strip the chrome off.
If you try google and search "cleaning vacuum metalized plastic" you will come up with recommended procedures for cleaning plastic treated with this process.
I have had very good luck going after over spray with 0000 steel wool and rubbing VERY LIGHTLY . One site recommended tooth paste.

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Originally Posted by nhusa

Bill I heard the Widex is also good for zits!

We used to FILL our mouth with MAYONAISE, then clobbr our cheeks with our FISTS!!!!!!
"SUPER-ZIT"!!!!!!!-------
Bill W.

[SeaSlugs]

paint thinner didnt do beans to it. will try some other stuff haha

[SeaSlugs]

brake fluid does seem to work without harming the chrome but just softens the paint, takes alot of fingernail scraping and a very stiff scrub brush to get it to start to peel. doesnt penetrate the paint very well. i just dribbled it on and rotated part of the part to get an even coat and let it sit for an hour when i did this.

would soaking overnight help to where i could just wash it off? the headlight surrounds wouldnt be too bad to scrape off but the grille with its horizontal and vertical fins would be a night mare...

[tbirdtbird]

is this car a keeper? or just re-spray with silver paint?

[SeaSlugs]

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yea i plan to keep this car as long as i can. its a 1980 with now 74,000 miles on it. does need to be repainted tho.

[kwisor]

hello
my sister had her daughters car spray painted all over i used sinthic enamel reducer took the spry paint right off then warsh the car and re wax it it will also remove the wax
kevin

[SeaSlugs]

i got one headlight surround cleaned up, found an very stiff nylon brush and let it soak overnight with brake fluid. seems like the simplest plan, just going to take awhile.

[Tom Wesenberg]

Two weeks ago at a train swap meet I bought a MARX engine and tender. The tender had 4 large drops of latex paint on it, so I dampened a rag with denatured alcohol and touched the paint. The paint softened, but the original black paint was immediately removed, so it looks like I'll have to strip the whole car. Wonder what brake fluid does to latex paint?

[Not George]

Is there chrome plastic on Model As?

[tbirdtbird]

prolly same thing, Tom, brake fluid is mostly alcohol except the silicone type