Cleaning paint off acrylic windows

[Jim]

I am buying an aircraft that has had its canopy partly painted over as a sun
shield. Does any one know of a good method of removing the paint from the
acrylic canopy without causing damage to the perspex?

thanks in advance

Jim

[Jon A.]

Chemicals will probably damage the plexi. You can try alcohol, but
what I needed to do was to lightly sand the paint off then repolish
the plexi, staring with 600 paper up to 2000 paper then polishing
compound on a machine. Good luck.

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 08:10:29 GMT, "Jim" >
wrote:

>I am buying an aircraft that has had its canopy partly painted over as a sun
>shield. Does any one know of a good method of removing the paint from the
>acrylic canopy without causing damage to the perspex?
>
>thanks in advance
>
>Jim
>

[plasticguy]

Try Naptha, I remove overspray with it from blown bubbles
and never had a problem.


"Jon A." > wrote in message
...
> Chemicals will probably damage the plexi. You can try alcohol, but
> what I needed to do was to lightly sand the paint off then repolish
> the plexi, staring with 600 paper up to 2000 paper then polishing
> compound on a machine. Good luck.
>
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 08:10:29 GMT, "Jim" >
> wrote:
>
>>I am buying an aircraft that has had its canopy partly painted over as a
>>sun
>>shield. Does any one know of a good method of removing the paint from
>>the
>>acrylic canopy without causing damage to the perspex?
>>
>>thanks in advance
>>
>>Jim
>>
>