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I think I’ve discovered what takes that gunk off the dragons without hurting the finish! Off all things, eye make-up remover! I was trying to find a “solvent” that was gentle enough and effective to do exactly what we were talking about. It occured to me that my eye make-up remover was pretty effective at getting the “goop” off my face without hurting me, so I tried it on an older piece that had some sticky goop that had been impervious to liquid soap and water that had been on there since I got the piece in 1994. I used a Q-tip at first to loosen it up and then a paper towel to do some very gentle rubbing. It took a while, but it all came off with no damage to the finish! I don’t know how it would work with relatively new paint, but it might be worth a try in an inconspicuous place. It worked on another piece with “hard dust” too, where the dust was in hard to reach places and had been there a long time. Amazed me!
Duly noted! I would have never though of that.
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmHmmmmm….I’ll have to give it a try, mine are all dusty because I keep them out. Haven’t dusted in a while. 😳
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so, then just the paint is exposed? you would have no sealant at all over the paint in that spot i am assuming.
I’ll have to try that because I recently turned a mint old brown young dragon into a several paint chips old brown young dragon trying to clean some dust off of it.
Thats great! Can I ask, exactly what kind of makeup remover do you use? I would like to try this on my RF OW. Thanks for the tip!
I think this may be a little confusing are you talking about the “Sealant” Gunk or just plain old “Dust/Grime” Gunk? or both because this could still be dangerous.
I tried it on the sealant gunk and it didn’t take off all of it, just the excess. I use Estee Lauder but if I do it again. I will try some less expensive stuff, 🙂 but not the least. That’s why it took a while of patient gentle rubbing. It turned sort of sticky and then turned smooth, and was just like the part I hadn’t touched, the “good” part, so I couldn’t tell the difference. I also tried it on some old dusty grime of years and it came out of that too with no change from one area to another. Seems like if the sealant came off it would change texture, be more rough, but it didn’t, so…anyway.???
Thank you for Clarification:D
*Waits impatiently to get off work so she can Run home and try this on Male’s Frog Prince, and then remembers she’ll have to go buy some first.* *SIGH*
drgnlvr wrote:I tried it on the sealant gunk and it didn’t take off all of it, just the excess. I use Estee Lauder but if I do it again. I will try some less expensive stuff, 🙂 but not the least. That’s why it took a while of patient gentle rubbing. It turned sort of sticky and then turned smooth, and was just like the part I hadn’t touched, the “good” part, so I couldn’t tell the difference. I also tried it on some old dusty grime of years and it came out of that too with no change from one area to another. Seems like if the sealant came off it would change texture, be more rough, but it didn’t, so…anyway.???
it might not change the texture.
I do know that the chemicals you are using doesn’t melt/smooth out the paint(sealant), it disolves it/takes it off… so it very well could be that the smoothness is the actual colored acrylic with out the sealant….but I do not know for sure. Just that that is a good possibility.
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