Plastic thingy

[Don Jordan]

I know I should search for this but I'm not sure what it's called.

The brown plastic name plate on the dashboard...

How do you get the paint off? It has a waffle pattern on the back and it's full of paint. I'm afraid to use chemicals for fear of melting the plastic. It's weird because you can't really paint over anything. I was thinking of maybe a very light sand blasting. My dash is painted blue so I'm trying to figure out if I should paint it blue - hang with the brown or even just leave it clear plastic with the silver Plymouth.

Ideas? My car is about 98% done. Now I'm down to all these little things.

thanks guys

[David Maxwell]

...after trying solvents etc... I went ahead and took my media blaster to a few of these. Completely removed all paint. Then I used a plastic polish to both the front and back. Didn't do too much to the back, but did clean it up enough so that when I reshot it with paint, it didn't look hazy. The plastic polish brought the top side to new condition. As for the apint, I used a silver that matched the original and brushed it into the lettering. I then sprayed the brown.

  Don Jordan said:

I know I should search for this but I'm not sure what it's called.

The brown plastic name plate on the dashboard...

How do you get the paint off? It has a waffle pattern on the back and it's full of paint. I'm afraid to use chemicals for fear of melting the plastic. It's weird because you can't really paint over anything. I was thinking of maybe a very light sand blasting. My dash is painted blue so I'm trying to figure out if I should paint it blue - hang with the brown or even just leave it clear plastic with the silver Plymouth.

Ideas? My car is about 98% done. Now I'm down to all these little things.

thanks guys

[Andydodge]

Being a model car builder I have had to strip paint from them on occaisons and the best thing is spray oven cleaner, try some on a small area, with a model car body you spray it on, let it foam up and place in a plastic shopping bag for a few hrs, them use a stiff brush like a toothbrush under warm water and the paint comes straight off........hope this helps, andyd

[Niel Hoback]

brake fluid will remove paint without harming plastic.

[Don Jordan]

Thank you - that's this week ends project. I'll let you know how it works.

I never tried oven cleaner - think I'll go with the brake fluid first.