[ARC5] Cleaning Painted Plug Pins on ARC 5 Rack?

[Paul H. Anderson]

Mica, being mineral, "should be" impervious to paint stripper.  You
usually would use a paint stripper like mar-hyde, but milder ones are
available.  Avoiding lye and heat would probably be good, since that can
affect platings on parts.

Depending on what paint got sprayed on, you _may_ be able to use a laquer
paint stripper (a product different from other paint strippers, as in
theory it doesn't touch enamel), and you _may_ be able to uncover the
paint underneath.  If it was painted black wrinkle, I dunno how well that
would work, but it might still be worth a shot.

Basically, you can sometimes use milder paint strippers to remove a much
newer layer of paint without touching the underlying layers of baked on or
aged paint.

Worth thinking about anyway.

Paul

On Sun, 30 May 2004, David Stinson wrote:

> Tom:
> I have a few replacement plugs.
> I'll trade you plug for plug.  I'll experiment
> with getting the paint off without messing up the mica.
> That will probably be easier than trying to clean the
> ones the depot doo-fuss sprayed.
> It will take me a few days to find them in "The Cave."
> Send me your address.  You'll need to figure some way
> to get the plugs off without booggering-up the locking rings.
> 73 Dave S.
>
> Tom Bridgers wrote:
> > Hi...
> >
> > Having read about how delicate and susceptible to harm from solvents
> > the phenolic type material used on plugs and switches is, I thought
> > I'd better ask for advice before I try to remove several layers of
> > spray paint that I found on a newly acquired ARC-5 rack. The entire
> > rack had been oversprayed...  I don't know for sure but it looks like
> > the paint used is of the Rustoleum or Krylon type.  This is a
> > 3-receiver rack, so there are a lot of plug pins to clean!!
> >
> > Any help you could provide would be appreciated.
> >
> > thanks,
> > -tom