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Great way to strip paint off an arcade cabinet
creatine28:
Thought this might be handy for someone? I bought an arcade cabinet about a week ago, it was a conversion from Centipede to Sky Soldiers. Someone had painted black paint over the centipede artwork. (UGH) I used some stuff from Home depot called Lift off and man this stuff worked great. There are like 5 different versions of this stuff, the one I got is specifically made to remove Latex paints. I sprayed this stuff on by cabinet sides and let it set for maybe 10 or 15 minutes and then scrapped the black paint off with ease. I was totally surprise, the paint came off and the Centipede artwork stayed! The cabinet has a little bit of water damage at the bottom, but not enough to worry about. Anyways I now have one side completely cleaned and it looks great, now I need to do the other side. The one side only took me around an hour, it probaly would have been less time, but I was kind of testing the spray just in case it ate up my artwork! Well, for anyone interested, here's the stuff I used. Its only like $6.97 for a bottle (Great Stuff!)
http://www.liftoffinc.com/home.asp
MameFan:
Now do they make something that will remove 20 year old dried contact cement off the side of a Pacman cab that still has graphics on it (albiet damaged). I pulled off the formica sides (it was converted to Arkanoid) and now am left with a rough, "pilly" surface of pink contact cement. Everything I tried either does nothing to it, or also eats into the paint. Only thing that sorta worked was a random orbital sander with a totally used-up pad... using heat and motion to rub it off.. but that would take days to get it all off!
creatine28:
You might want to try the #2 of their product, looks like its made for adhesives.
http://www.liftoffinc.com/product_2.htm
SNAAAKE:
why "try" to strip off paint ???
cant you just sand it right off...?Everything ! :)
Mamefan:best you could do is use cooking oil and try to remove contact cement...thats how I do it when i spill some extra around the cabinet.
I dunno......
creatine28:
--- Quote from: SNAAAKE on May 12, 2003, 03:18:41 pm ---why "try" to strip off paint ???
cant you just sand it right off...?Everything ! :)
--- End quote ---
If I didn't want the art under the paint I probaly would, but this stuff strips the paint and leaves a nice finish. When I was done I had a small amount of paint peels on the ground and also best of all this stuff doesn't smell as harsh as Jasco or other paint removers.
It was so much easier to spray and wipe, then to use a sander. Less mess and only took a small amount of time and effort.