"Removing milliwatt" Topic

I have a couple of figures, whose former well meaning owners tried to scratch build/convert using millitputt.

Their efforts make me look like a master sculptor.

So I want to roll back their efforts and remove the milliput.

Short of taking a scalpel and having a very tedious day, is there any quick way of removing milliwatt ?

Sorry, this is a little OT, but I can't se a more appropriate board whose members might have the skills necessary.

Milliputt even. :-/

I have not done this with milliputt but I think it would be worth freezing it first. Freezing makes some things more brittle and the differential expansion can loosen things.

x42

Plastic or metal figs?

Test brake fluid for the milliputt see if it crumbles off, for the milliwatt I'd switch the electrical current off.

Metal figs.

(a test subject is now in the freezer)

for the milliwatt I'd switch the electrical current off.

Or it could be that Milliwatts is the electrifying new competitor to Milliways (the restaurant at the end of the universe)…

:-)

I might try the brake fluid if I still have my can of it.

I cannot surepress a morbid curiosity about these coversions. Any chance of a before and after photo?

Then 42brown´s Suggestion with freezing them might work. You could also try freezing then a quick Immersion in hot water.

Here I thought I was going to get all indignant about some fool proposing some other term for "milliwatt"…..

I thought Milliwatt was Megawati Sukarnoputri's youngest child?

Milliwatt. It's what Doc Brown had as a child trying to invent a time machine.

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According to the Milliput site, the stadard Milliput is heat resistant to 130C (266F).

Depending on the metal alloy (some pewter melts at 170C), a setting of 135-145C on the oven might be enough to do the trick.

A slightly lower temperature bake followed by dunking in cold water might work as well.

Of course heating the Milliput to those temperatures might give off some fumes.

I removed my own Green Stuff conversions using carb cleaner. Brake cleaner should work. Acetone didn't even touch it.

Wyatt

If they are metal, you can try using a couple of more exotic solvents: dichooromethane and dicloroethane. But no idea how you can get them outside a lab. Also, 1,1,1-tricloroethane, it was used for dry cleaning in laundries. These solvents remove resine and superglue from metal figures.

I have soaked milliput in pine-sol. It absorbs it and crumbles away- might take a week or so, depending on the thickness.

You can also just apply pressure, and it will shatter – press a lnife handle agaunst it like you were knapping flint.