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Re: Car/Tar question - acetone usage

To: mg_garage@ameritech.net
Subject: Re: Car/Tar question - acetone usage
From: Jim Juhas <james.f.juhas@snet.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:35:49 -0400
It may depend on the type of finish.  The clears are typically
urethane, and it didn't break through at all on my 1994 Dodge truck.

What paints do you remove with it?  Lacquer?

Gordie's Garage wrote:

> Whoa!  I'd be real careful.  I use it to REMOVE paint.
>
> A quick google search turned up:
>
> http://www.eig.com/smos/smo98075.html
>
> http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/423.html  (about half way down)
>
> >
> > I have discovered that Acetone, available at the hardware store
> > for less than $10/gallon, will remove tree sap, even the dried
> > stuff, from my clear coat painted truck without even dulling the
> > gloss.  It may work with tar.  I figured this stuff is pretty
> > safe to use because it's what Nail Polish Remover is.  I also
> > used it on the oxidized black paint on my 1986 Mustang to get rid
> > of the same tree sap, and it left a ring of dulled paint, and a
> > little color came off on the paper towel I used.  Some Mequires
> > Diamond Cut compound brought it right back.
> >
> > Jim

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