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Remove paint from plastic

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 12:00:36 +0000

It’s easier to remove paint from plastic than it may seem. The trick is knowing the right chemical to use. The method to apply it will vary, depending on whether the item is too big to soak. This method works

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Restoring Marx 6-inch frames

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:00:29 +0000

Marx 6-inch cars in beat-up condition are cheap and easy to find, but you can dramatically improve their appearance by repainting their frames. If the body is scratched up it still won’t be a showroom car, but you can halve

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6 options for removing paint from model trains

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 12:00:37 +0000

It’s not uncommon to find model trains with unwanted paint on them, or original paint that’s damaged beyond the point of being able to rehabilitate it. Fortunately, the price is usually low on these trains, and there are numerous household

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Painting model figures in five easy steps

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 11:00:39 +0000

Painting model figures for train layouts is a task that few toy train hobbyists relish, but we can borrow techniques from other hobbies to solve that problem. The model railroading and toy train hobbies have solved a lot of problems

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How to remove paint from a tin litho toy or train

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:44:39 +0000

It isn’t terribly rare to find old tin lithographed toys or trains that have been overpainted. Boys will be boys, after all, and have you ever met a boy that didn’t love paint? When it comes to restoring these toys,

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Garage sale adventures: The treadmill

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 19:18:01 +0000

Earlier this year my wife asked me to look for a treadmill. So I started keeping an eye out. A month or two ago I spotted one at an estate sale, but everything was wrong about that deal.

Today, I pulled the trigger.

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Don’t paint on Mondays (or any other bad day)

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:47:00 +0000

I should have stayed away from the model kit.

I was looking for a way to unwind after a long day. I don't know why it was long or hard. It's not like I got jinxed by hearing "I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats on the radio today or anything.

But I don't need to tell any more of the story than this: I got in a hurry, and I got burned.

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