Any tips for removing cured Aves from styrene?

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Any tips for removing cured Aves from styrene?

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I'm looking to remove cured Aves putty from a model. Any tips or tricks? I tried just picking at it with an x-axcto but it seems like a pretty good bond.

Pop it in the freezer? Hit it with the hair drier? Trash it and start over?


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Freezing it should enable you to pop it off if it's really hard. If you can get under the edge with a hobby knife, especially if you have one that's flattened like a spatula, and pry upwards it might pop off that way too.
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Freezing can help pop it off. Stuff is tenacious as hell when you don't want it to be.
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I'm not sure about freezing. It might just make your styrene brittle.
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Kylwell wrote:Freezing can help pop it off. Stuff is tenacious as hell when you don't want it to be.
Yes, yes it has been. I did more harm than good so the kit goes to the spares bin.
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Soak it in Super Clean. It will turn the putty into something along the times of wax candy at which point you can scrape and pop it list.

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Lt. Z0mBe wrote:Soak it in Super Clean. It will turn the putty into something along the times of wax candy at which point you can scrape and pop it list.

Kenny
Really? I have have to give that a try.

Would Simple Green work too?
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Maschinen Krueger wrote:
Lt. Z0mBe wrote:Soak it in Super Clean. It will turn the putty into something along the times of wax candy at which point you can scrape and pop it list.

Kenny
Really? I have have to give that a try.

Would Simple Green work too?
I've never tried Simple Green. Super Clean I learned about by accident whilst stripping paint. :lol:

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