How To Remove Krylon Clear Coat

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   hamman SKULL AND BONES TAXIDERMY

   I have a deer that I want to do over because I did it several years ago and didn't properly degrease. I bought some of the clear coat spray from walmart and put on it. Now several years later the skull has yellow splotches on it and I want to fix my mistakes. How can I get it off the skull?

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   Sarge A little too much Lord *hic*

   Poly or Varnish sounds like varnish, soak it and acetone and then soap and water acetone should disolve it. Same for Poly acrylics

   HTH

   Jeff

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5. If its acrylic, I just talked to a rep at Krylon yesterday and they said only a paint stripper would remove it, not thinner or acetone. Never tried it yet so ????

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   Sarge A little too much Lord *hic*

   Well in veiw of that then as long as you didn't dunk it then you should be able to soak like you would when degreasing and the bone should swell and cause it to flake off jus like it does when water gets into wood and it swells. The stuff just flakes right off when you dry it out.

   JMO

   Jeff

7. As Sarge says, try the acetone. Acetone won't hurt the bone and will help get some of the grease out/off anyway. Pour some acetone on paint and see what it does. Maybe the rep wanted you to buy more Krylon stuff?

8. Actually it made me kinda shy away from acrylic for now. Always had good luck mixing weldbond and water anyways. Wanting to try the paraloid route someday.

9. I've seen acetone have some bad reactions on waterborne acrylics. You might want to start with soaking an un-noticable area to start if you don't known what it was clear coated with.

10. I used paint stripper to clean paint (in that case it was flat white enamel paint) off a skull and the stripper didn't harm the bone, but you could also try denatured alcohol - that will take paint off too and degrease.

11. Hey Jonscut What was the bad reaction on the acrylics that your talking about? I think I have used it a couple times and never saw any bad reaction but then I may not have noticed it. And if you can not use the acetone I know that Toluene will remove acrylic spray ( use it in the O&P lab for that) but I do not know what it would do to the skull and it can be nasty stuff so make sure you good ventilation.

    Jeff

12. Jeff the reaction was the clear coat got a orange peel texture and took on a grayish tint which would not come out. It was pretty noticeable but this was a reaction with a waterborne acrylic. I'm not a expert on paints and varnishes so I would still recommend to error on the side of caution and test a un-noticable area first before you dunk the whole skull if unsure what it was clear coated with. The bad reaction that I saw was left in acetone for a month after it took on the grayish tint and all it did was become gummy and still wouldn't come off.

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How To Remove Krylon Clear Coat

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