Advice needed to remove oil based paint from a soft top converetible

zckid

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hi friends :)

A friend of mine has a Mercedes with soft top.

Well, somebody was doing some painting work, and got a few blobs of paint on the soft top of the ride.

here's the baby

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Close-up

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As above, your suggestions and advice on how to remove the same will be most appreciated. and my friend plans to have the soft top coated too.

Many thanks :cool:
 
Make sure it is dried. Carefully scrape with a plastic razor blade. That should take care of the paint.as far as residue a good apc should take care of that, use a toothbrush and you should be fine
good luck!
 
Can you change your screen name to Dr. Lambert. That sounded like a Perscription.

Make sure it is dried. Carefully scrape with a plastic razor blade. That should take care of the paint.as far as residue a good apc should take care of that, use a toothbrush and you should be fine
good luck!
 
Oil based paint takes forever to dry but hopefully it this car is warm enough, it wont take too long..
I might experiment with Mineral Spirits since its oil based paint and a sharp QTip so see what happens..
But that's just me.. :)
Latex would dry fast and probably scrape off easily...
If you do get it all off with no problems, I would recommend the Ragg Topp cleaner and conditioner..
I used it all the time on the zillion Convertibles up in Seattle, with my Mytee Hp60 Spyder extractor to rinse and pull everything out of the top.

Once, i did this to a Mini Convertible that was transported from WA to FL, and it was on the bottom and a nasty car above it leaked oil onto the perfect clean top..
The people called me about what to do and I told them to just wash it and they did and the oil came right off..
Now you know why I always put a lot of the RaggTopp conditioner on the the perfectly cleaned tops.. :)
Good luck with this !
Dan F
 
Make sure it is dried. Carefully scrape with a plastic razor blade. That should take care of the paint.as far as residue a good apc should take care of that, use a toothbrush and you should be fine
good luck!

Can you change your screen name to Dr. Lambert. That sounded like a Perscription.

Oil based paint takes forever to dry but hopefully it this car is warm enough, it wont take too long..
I might experiment with Mineral Spirits since its oil based paint and a sharp QTip so see what happens..
But that's just me.. :)
Latex would dry fast and probably scrape off easily...
If you do get it all off with no problems, I would recommend the Ragg Topp cleaner and conditioner..
I used it all the time on the zillion Convertibles up in Seattle, with my Mytee Hp60 Spyder extractor to rise and pull everything out of the top.
Once, i did this to a Mini Convertible that was transported from WA to FL, and it was on the bottom and a nasty car above it leaked oil onto the perfect clean top..
The people called me about what to do and I told them to just wash it and they did and the oil came right off..
Now you know why I always put a lot of the RaggTopp conditioner on the the perfectly cleaned tops.. :)
Good luck with this !
Dan F

Thanks a lot friends! :)

@ Mike & Dan, I will try as u suggested n keep you updated on the results.

Your help is most appreciated. :)

Zaid
 
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