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M0TGX Terry · 7th Dec 2019, 1:44 am

I don't know what sort of paint it was on the HMV. Some sort of enamel maybe? I know it was VERY hard and I had to resort to using a Stanley Knife blade as a scraper, followed by literally hours of polishing to remove the resulting scratches. As it happened, the newly exposed bakelite had a quite pronounced 'tortoiseshell' finish which the set's owner preferred to the original paint. It's a fiddly design of overlapping circles, so lots of tight angles to clean out.

7th Dec 2019, 1:44 am	#7
M0TGX Terry Hexode Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK. Posts: 262	Re: Painted Bakelite and paint stripper... I don't know what sort of paint it was on the HMV. Some sort of enamel maybe? I know it was VERY hard and I had to resort to using a Stanley Knife blade as a scraper, followed by literally hours of polishing to remove the resulting scratches. As it happened, the newly exposed bakelite had a quite pronounced 'tortoiseshell' finish which the set's owner preferred to the original paint. It's a fiddly design of overlapping circles, so lots of tight angles to clean out. __________________ Terry the Morganist