Removing Paint from Rolling Stock

Paint removal seems to be a hot topic,

Ive seen mulitiple posts on this forum.

try a search for "paint removal"

you might get lucky.

personnaly I use brake fluid.

Agree!

I use 600 wet sandpaper on the lettering ridges and consider the rest to be excellent primer.

sure is a hot topic!

for example, Weaver models strip fairly easily because they are painted in the US.

most china made models use a tenacious paint that is more like ink and is tough to remove completely.

I've used Castrol super clean on Weaver models and tried just about everything that doesn't melt plastic on China models, with varying degrees of success.

I like bob2's method though.

Highly variable and dependent on company and origin.  I've soaked some for weeks in Pinesol to no effect and some for a few hours and it's done.  If it's not some sort of plastic, I'll just go back to the old fashioned chemicals and be done with it.

Thanks everyone for your responses.  What about using a Badger 260 Grit blast device but instead use baking soda as the blasting medium (see link below) instead of the aluminum oxide that it comes with?  I’m thinking this is going to require a multiple step process.  I’m thinking the grit blaster might do okay on the exposed metal surfaces but I’m thinking it’s all the nooks and crannies in the metal that are going to require something like brake fluid, that is if brake fluid will lift the paint from these metal surfaces.  That is a test I will have to do.

http://www.badgerairbrush.com/Badger_260.asp

http://www.trainorders.com/dis...on/read.php?3,844020

Scott K.

Austin, TX