Paint removal from acrylic

Atrain · Sep 27, 2016

anybody have experience in removing spray paint from an acrylic tank? I'm thinking of a magic sponge and elbow grease... But I don't have alot of grease around the house and was hoping someone may have a better more effective way.

melypr1985 · Sep 27, 2016

Thread moved to a forum that will provide a better audience appropriate to the topic.

Atrain · Sep 27, 2016

Could have sworn I put it in the DIY... Ware was it? Thank you for moving it

ELwirePros · Sep 27, 2016

What size is your tank? I have had extremely good luck removing paint from many plastics using a product called "Super Clean". It is in a purple bottle and you can get it at Walmart and most auto supply stores. You just have to soak your item in it for an hour or two and the pain should just slide right off. I have not used this on acrylic so you may want to use a test piece first.

ELwirePros · Sep 27, 2016

melypr1985 · Sep 27, 2016

Atrain said:
Could have sworn I put it in the DIY... Ware was it? Thank you for moving it

It was in the invert ID forum. lol It's no problem

Atrain · Sep 27, 2016

ELwirePros said:
What size is your tank? I have had extremely good luck removing paint from many plastics using a product called "Super Clean". It is in a purple bottle and you can get it at Walmart and most auto supply stores. You just have to soak your item in it for an hour or two and the pain should just slide right off. I have not used this on acrylic so you may want to use a test piece first.

Never seen that before I'll have to look into it, if it's safe I could probably lay rags over it with the solution maybe to get it worked in... It is a 180g and the previous owner painted the back blue and I don't care for it

Atrain · Sep 27, 2016

melypr1985 said:
It was in the invert ID forum. lol It's no problem

Makes since I was just reading on snails lol .thanks again

Atrain · Sep 27, 2016

Atrain said:
Never seen that before I'll have to look into it, if it's safe I could probably lay rags over it with the solution maybe to get it worked in... It is a 180g and the previous owner painted the back blue and I don't care for it

Atrain · Sep 27, 2016

You can kinda see it hear this is what it looked like when I picked it up last Friday

Atrain · Sep 27, 2016

You can see it hear.. Even though there is a big piece of blue foam in the back ground

ELwirePros · Sep 27, 2016

Just google "removing paint with super clean"

ELwirePros · Sep 27, 2016

And since i found this in the "Pest ID" section, those are called children. They are not too harmful, but you may want to remove them from your tank...

Atrain · Sep 27, 2016

ELwirePros said:
And since i found this in the "Pest ID" section, those are called children. They are not too harmful, but you may want to remove them from your tank...

They definitely can be coral killers lol

ahiggins · Sep 28, 2016

Atrain said:
You can see it hear.. Even though there is a big piece of blue foam in the back ground

I cannot believe thats the same tank! good job cleaning!

Atrain · Sep 28, 2016

ahiggins said:
I cannot believe thats the same tank! good job cleaning!

Indeed it did clean up pretty well thank you, still have some coraline to clean off some minor scratches on the front but I think the water will hide those... I still need to get the blue paint off the back though

Atrain · Sep 28, 2016

ELwirePros said:

I've not been able to find out if it's safe on acrylic... It will eat CA glue found on models, bit scary. I emailed the company today to see if it's safe, I'll let you know what they say...