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Martin OostromA question: I'm trying to de-chrome a couple of Italeri sprues. I've tested with regular bleach: no go. I've tested with a "professional" oven/bbq cleaner: no go. The cleaner completely stripped the paint of my alligator clips, but not from the sprue.
I am not a fan of Italeri products, but their chrome sticks perfectly (sadly enough).
Who can give me a nod in the right direction? Preferably with a product easily bought in The Netherlands.
I am not a fan of Italeri products, but their chrome sticks perfectly (sadly enough).
Who can give me a nod in the right direction? Preferably with a product easily bought in The Netherlands.
2 February 2020, 12:10
Łukasz GlińskiI went for the granulate pipe cleaner to get rid of the gold chrome on my AMT X-Wing, maybe that would help. No clue whether you can get it in Low Countries 🙁
What about car brake fluid?
2 February 2020, 18:09
Martin OostromA small sprue has been bathing in the foam oven cleaner for an hour now. Only the in liquid submerged parts are clean. Now to find a way to do the large /parts....
2 February 2020, 18:33
Martin OostromUnfortunately Alec, that stuff only is sold in Northern America. No shipping to my part of the world.
4 February 2020, 15:32
Tom ...Ah bummer. However super clean had a really hard time removing this chrome. Took nearly 24 hours and there was a kind of residue left on the sprues.
4 February 2020, 16:22
Alec KSorry about that Martin. Just saw Tom's post and though I'll share that in case you did not see it.
5 February 2020, 01:03
Martin OostromNo need to apologise Alec. I really appreciate you taking the time for pointing me in the right direction! 👍
5 February 2020, 06:12
Wim van der LuijtHaven't tried it myself, but is supposed to work too.....and is widely available in NL [img1]?options=399,q85
5 February 2020, 06:43
Rod -Caustic soda, or drain cleaner. The active chemical is called sodium hydroxide. (likely the same as oven cleaner) Looks like coarse, white sand. I've used it with great success on tamiya and revell chrome.
Dissolve a teaspoon of granules in a cup of water and it'll strip chrome in 10mins.
BE VERY CAREFUL! It looks just like plain water when dissolved and it's crazy toxic.
5 February 2020, 07:39
Urban GardiniChlorine should do the trick. It took me ten minutes to strip the chrome plating from a Tammy bike. All but the smallest crevices was gone in just five minutes.
5 February 2020, 07:53
Martin OostromThank you all for the suggestions.
Usually I use bleach on Tamiya/Hasegawa/Revell kits. Works perfectly.
This Italeri Chrome doesn't react to bleach, drain cleaner, ammonia and not so well to oven cleaner. The oven cleaner works well on the back side of the sprues, but not on the front. There must be some varnish like some uff on it. I tried an ammonia bath followed by a bleach bath. No dice.
I will try Dettol first, if it doesn't work it can be used in house. Second try will be brake fluid. Do I need something specific like dot 3 or dot 4 or whatever?
5 February 2020, 09:52
Tom ...Martin, I had the same experience. One side of the sprues dechromed quickly. Was thinking one side has a lot more chrome on it but there does also seem to be some kind of residue afterwards too so not sure what's going on. I've dechromed about 20 of my kits and had issues with 3: Revell's Isetta, ICM's Model T and this kit.
5 February 2020, 16:32
Martin OostromFinally found some mr Muscle. Works way better than the other products. One soak of three-four hours wasn't enough yesterday. So the sprues are taking another bath today
9 February 2020, 09:23