wiil aircraft paintstripper harm plastic

[Spoolin18]

I need to strip some paint from plastic, I think its abs, would aircraft stripper eat through the plastic?

 

[One Equals Two]

I put some on my front bumper and it destroyed it. I'd assume it'd do the same to yours.

 

[1gDSM4g63]

It will say whether it'll harm plastic. There are some Aircraft paint remover for flexible plastic specially designer for automotive paint such as urethane plastic bumpers.

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[jacobevan611]

I will melt the plastic to mush and create toxic fumes. I know from experience.

 

[Rob10_99]

Yes.
It will destroy anything that isn't metallic, being aircraft stripper it should be safe on magnesium and aluminum, ....anything else is up for grabs.

 

[DSM1G90]

"Aircraft" is great stuff, but nasty on plastic due to the higher content of Methaline Chloride - which literally melts those urethane bumper covers..

 

[Rob10_99]

yes, anything with chlorine will discolor/melt ANY type of plastic, be it urethane or fiberglass.
Plastic doesn't like that.

IMO.. least offensive would be to use brake cleaner... I had some bad experiences on a customer car with cleaning a sealing surface with a gangster paintjob on something...

Yeah, fail on the rattlecan shit.

 

[DSM nOOb]

i'd say try acetone.

 

[gunner87]

i would not use brake cleaner on anything i was going to paint bc most of them contain silicone which will cause fisheyes

 

[greenDSMdude]

hmm i am gonna be painting my factory 5 spokes and i was thinking about the center cap. what is that made of? i dont wanna spray it to clean them and have them melted...

 

[DSM nOOb]

hmm i am gonna be painting my factory 5 spokes and i was thinking about the center cap. what is that made of? i dont wanna spray it to clean them and have them melted...

just take the center cap out and sand it by hand