{"id":4100,"date":"2025-05-15T10:14:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T17:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=4100"},"modified":"2025-05-15T15:58:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:58:04","slug":"stripping-paint-gently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=4100","title":{"rendered":"Stripping paint, gently"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">For some years I&#8217;ve had a pretty standard paint stripping routine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I could use stronger stuff, but my main stripper is 90% isopropyl alcohol, purchased at the drug store. Most typically I soak a item in it for several weeks in a sealed bottle, then scrub it, soak it again (perhaps several times), and then finally work on the residual with a tool or knife point. Then finally putting it through the ultrasonic cleaner to remove any final residuals before repainting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Over some years of doing this, I am able to look at a car and I have an idea what will come off and what won&#8217;t. Heavy old brush paint typically will lift off pretty well, but Lionel paint, for example, isn&#8217;t going to be impacted very much by the alcohol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This car is an example of an early Lionel model that got brush painted (back in the day) black for a more prototypical look. The black paint came off relatively easily, but the gray Lionel paint is mostly still there. However, it can at this point be safely painted over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">What I find especially interesting though on this model is that you can still see a remnant of the original Lionel decal lettering, a ghostly reminder of the 1938 paint scheme this model originally had. The heavy paint that was stripped was over the original decals!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I do like to repaint models of this type (focusing on cars badly in need! One goal being to leave models better than I found them), but I&#8217;m undecided what to letter this for as of now. I might let it sit a little while like this before I take it forward to completion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1779\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lionel-OO-hopper.jpg?fit=640%2C213&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lionel-OO-hopper.jpg?w=1779&amp;ssl=1 1779w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lionel-OO-hopper.jpg?resize=300%2C100&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lionel-OO-hopper.jpg?resize=1024%2C341&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lionel-OO-hopper.jpg?resize=768%2C256&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lionel-OO-hopper.jpg?resize=1536%2C511&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lionel-OO-hopper.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some years I&#8217;ve had a pretty standard paint stripping routine. I could use stronger stuff, but my main stripper is 90% isopropyl alcohol, purchased<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lionel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lionel-OO-hopper.jpg?fit=1779%2C592&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4105,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions\/4105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}