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Top man!!

Today I learned the Ikea Detolf cabinet was discontinued a few years ago & the new equivalent has peculiar dimensions, looks less than half as good and costs twice as much  

There are some products in the IKEA portfolio that are unfortunately out of stock and production.The same has happened with the low Milsbo as well.😒

Finally finished my Skyway TA tribute bike and have been riding it around the neighborhood!

A gave it a rest with trying to get the paint off my OG Bruiser shell...It's Sunday..!

HELP..!  Been in a bath of Dot4 Brake Fluid for a week and its still stubborn as badword..!

The joys of getting paint off old bodies..!





 

Ranger1 wrote:

A gave it a rest with trying to get the paint off my OG Bruiser shell...It's Sunday..!

HELP..!  Been in a bath of Dot4 Brake Fluid for a week and its still stubborn as badword..!

The joys of getting paint off old bodies..!

 

... but it is coming off 

Sometimes slow and safe (and tedious) is how it goes, TBH I can't really recommend anything else when what you've got is working - blasting leaves a lot of extra prep work to do, caustic soda really isn't very safe, old fashioned paint strippers (Nitromors)  would probably leave it as a melted blob, new strippers aren't always as safe as they claim, especially when you're not 100% sure of the formulation of the plastic - Tamiya (and others) tend to use the terms HIPS, ABS, Styrene and Styrol interchangably, and they're really not the same.

The only things I can suggest are to use the cheapest, hardest toothbrush you can find for scrubbing, and find something somewhat engaging, but not too distracting to have on in the background. I'd suggest Everything Autos, Bikes and Beards, Techmoan, Chops Garage, Professor of Rock, The Critical Drinker, Rainman Ray's Repairs and any number of others on YouTube ... I'll be watching Dune while ultrasonically cleaning Willy's Wheeler parts, myself

 

Ranger1 wrote:

A gave it a rest with trying to get the paint off my OG Bruiser shell...It's Sunday..!

HELP..!  Been in a bath of Dot4 Brake Fluid for a week and its still stubborn as badword..!

The joys of getting paint off old bodies..!







 

Do you know what brand / type the original paint is ?

Much hoohah is made about brake fluid but IMO there are better strippers out there (fnar fnar), I for one never having much luck with brake fluid.
These days  I use a homebrew solution concocted from readily available chemicals & mostly water.

This monster beetle nose for example had been painted in some godawful fluorescent pink pain that had resisted pretty much all else.
The recipe I use reduced it to a pinkish white powder, the remainder being removed with Scotch pads;



 

1972 wrote:

Finally finished my Skyway TA tribute bike and have been riding it around the neighborhood!

 

It's interesting comparing bikes from the 70-80's, where you had basic base colours (white, red, yellow, blue, etc) and the graphics were detailed.  Newer bikes have metallic paint and stuff, lot's of darker colours, graphics with just brand names, and just look different.  Race cars are kinda the same too, up till the early 90's the styles were cleaner........

.....  And i'm probably just getting old  

Ranger1 wrote:

A gave it a rest with trying to get the paint off my OG Bruiser shell...It's Sunday..!

HELP..!  Been in a bath of Dot4 Brake Fluid for a week and its still stubborn as badword..!

The joys of getting paint off old bodies..!






 

I`ve found that Dot 3 brake fluid works better than 4.
Dot 4 and 5 is the modern variants so you may looking at shops with parts for classic cars selling Dot 3.
Here in Scandinavia we have a chain that is called Biltema and they do carry Dot 3 for any that is in this area.
Many of the good stuff back in the day is banned here and usually the eco stuff don`t work.
Castrol Super Cleaner was awesome stuff. That is now sold as Purple Power. We in Norway don`t have that stuff, but you might.

I remember my late father said Castrol Super Cleaner took paint if you let it sit for more than 5 minutes.(Real car paint)
 

What Capri said......

Dot 4, 4.1, 5 are synthetic fluids, which is probably why they aren't working.  You need a mineral based fluid, Dot 3 and some "cheap" Dot 4.