Could it be something as simple as the person already has the decals?! Bill Welch

Elden, In general I agree with your assessment of the soda industry. Likely that except for the large cities, the only place soft drink manufacturers would have received direct rail

Unless you need to work in the Vernier scale forsome reason or you like to torture yourself is get a pair in English or metriccalipers or better yet one that does both. I do have a set of both Vernier

They are an industrial grade and take tons of use and abuse. I use a pairwhich live in the gage room at work for all shifts and if I buy a digital pairfor my home use that's what I'll buy. After

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Guys; Back in the day, there were not that many big soda/pop bottlers, even in major towns, and the big brands did not have numerous brands under them.

When all else fails, ask for an MSDS. I did and found that ScaleCoat Wash Away paint remover and Chameleon Paint Remover have the same active ingredients. Approximately 10% butyl cellosolve and the

 Strip?Why bother when appropriate decals are nextto impossible to find ? A .Premo

I agree, I have a source for 100% alcohol and it removes paint of Proto models in sheets, relatively inexpensive as well. Rob McLear Aussie

I agree on the Scalecoat remover as i have used it for years. One problem mine is so old that it actually ate through the bottle. I now have whats left in an old olive jar! Still works -- Fenton

I stand corrected. Old wives tale,I believe. And it stuck due to the hygroscopic nature of brake fluid and alcohol. It's been years since I used it as a paint stripper. Arved Grass Arved_Grass@...

I stand corrected! Old wives tale, perhaps.I should have checked the MSDS. Arved Grass Arved_Grass@... or Arved@... Fleming Island, Florida

Back on September 29, I posted links to the first five parts in my description of how I weather freight cars using acrylic washes. (Part 6, link below, contains links to all five of those introductory

Bob I don't know how bottling plants got carbon dioxide in the old days, but the bottling plants around here get tank cars of liquid sugar (mostly corn syrup) and liquified CO2. Coke was (is?)

Until I got my medial blaster I always used Pinesol. You had to watch it so that when the majority of the paint had lifted you rinsed it off. Depending on the type of plastic the model is molded from

Scalecoat uses Xylene -- I think that's what smells. I don't thinkthere's any of that in brake fluid either. Remember hydraulic fluid is created fromviscous fluids -- alcohols are anything but

Years ago I bought large (11" tall) PETE jars (made for foodstorage, bought in the homewares dept) and filled each with fluid --Scalecoat's remover, Chameleon, Brake Fluid, even Lacquer Thinner. I

Arved Grass wrote There is definitely no alcohol in brake fluid. Brake fluid attacks rubber compounds in plastic -- many models use ABS plastic resins (the AB is for these compounds) and can be

It's been a few years since I've stripped a P2K car, but I always found ordinary rubbing alcohol worked just fine and didn't do anything bad to the plastic. I put the parts to be stripped in a small

With the exception of the an accumulated one year of adult learning classes of various kinds over the years, mainly photography (wow, over 3 decades ago) and Adobe Creative Suite, all eight years of

I have used lye to strip AHM passenger cars. I found I could leave the cars in the solution (a VERY strong solution) indefinitely. As in several days. Maybe a couple of weeks, if I recall properly.