Getting Paint off Nomenclature Plates

[Lionelgee]

Hello All,

I would like to be able to remove a couple of layers of paint that a previous owner covered the set of nomenclature plates with.

Can anyone recommend a product and method of removing the paint that will not damage the finish of the data plates?

Here is a photograph of the current situation. It is a bit ironic that they say that a picture paints a thousand words and I want to take the paint off so I can see the words ;)

Kind Regards
Lionel

[gromit]

Lionel,

Paint stripper shouldn't damage the anodising on the plates. Scrape it off with something soft like a body filler spreader. If applied thick enough the paint should bubble up and almost be able to be removed with a wet rag, you may have to remove layer by layer.

Try not to get any under the edges of the plate because you won't remove it without removing the plates first.


Colin

[HowardSmall]

I just cleaned paint off mine using thinners.

Howard

[Blknight.aus]

if its the normal spray pack paint that we use for touch ups it'll come off the plates with a gurney

hot soapy water and a sponge works too.

[p38arover]

Paint stripper shouldn't damage the anodising on the plates. Scrape it off with something soft like a body filler spreader. If applied thick enough the paint should bubble up and almost be able to be removed with a wet rag, you may have to remove layer by layer.

Wouldn't the caustic paint stripper damage the aluminium?

If they can be removed, soak them in lacquer thinners. If you have none, maybe old brake fluid?

[UncleHo]

I would suggest you wipe it with Brake Fluid, very carefully,or better still drill out the rivets and do it on a flat surface then re-rivet it and touch up the rivets.:)

[Don 130]

Try boiling water either slowly poured over, or if you take them off, poured onto them in a dish. The heat will soften the paint allowing it to be pushed off easily if it doesn't come off by itself.

[hot rover]

I used lacquer thinners and a plastic scraper. Let the plates soap for a while the paint should fry up and come off easily. You are best to remove the data plates from the vehicle.

[p38arover]

if its the normal spray pack paint that we use for touch ups it'll come off the plates with a gurney
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[Lionelgee]

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Hello p38a Rover,

I think Dave means something more akin to the Gerni High pressure water cleaner :)

Kind Regards
Lionel

[p38arover]

Yes, I had assumed that. I think Gerni has now become the common name for high pressure cleaners - like "Hoover" for a vacuum cleaner in the UK.

[Lionelgee]

Hello P38a Rover,

I suppose the same part of the brain that can make sense of the string of words below. was used when reading the word "gurney" and substituted in "gerni". I had not even picked this up until I saw your picture posted up.

The sentence below is part of research conducted by Cambridge University about how our brain works things out... Accessed 24th June 2014 from Brain Oddities: Spelling is Irrelevant to Comprehension | The Big Picture (http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/12/brain-oddities-irrelevant-spelling)

Kind Regards
Lionel

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[p38arover]

Hello P38a Rover,

I suppose the same part of the brain that can make sense of the string of words below. was used when reading the word "gurney" and substituted in "gerni". I had not even picked this up until I saw your picture posted up.

My wife gets annoyed at me because I'm constantly picking up on spelling errors in TV programme titles or sub-titles even though they are on screen for only a second or so. You'd be surprised just how many spelling errors there are - even in TV advertising. I even saw one last night on a David Attenborough programme.

Don't get me started on Australian programmes that use US spelling.....

(....nor the fact that this forum software doesn't allow one to have British spelling so it flags our spelling as incorrect.)

[Lionelgee]

(....nor the fact that this forum software doesn't allow one to have British spelling so it flags our spelling as incorrect.)


G'day P38A Rover

I am not sure what web browser you use?

I have found that when I access the AULRO forum using Mozilla FireFox, while I am writing a message on the forum, if there are any spelling mistakes it generates the red squiggly line under the word - just like Microsoft Word does. Then right click on the spelling mistake; a drop-down menu box appears. One of the menu items includes "Languages". There is a right arrow and to the right of "languages" there is an option for English [Australian]. :)

Kind Regards
Lionel

[p38arover]

Ahh. I use Chrome. I've just tried that and I've been able to add English (Australian) so that it uses that for spell checking. Thanks, Lionel.

[Lionelgee]

Ahh. I use Chrome. I've just tried that and I've been able to add English (Australian) so that it uses that for spell checking. Thanks, Lionel.


Hello Ron,

No worries - I feel your frustration with not being able to use English (Australian) in some programs :).

Kind Regards
Lionel