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

[J. Forster]

Virtually no solvent will damage mica. Try Acetone or Xylene, both from Home Depot. Both are very flammable, ...  usual warnings. Neither will damage Bakelite either, used carefully. Sometimes the surface will appear dull afterwards, but a light waxing will fix that.

-John

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