How To Remove Paint From Rubber Trim

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Previous owner of my '69 Dart had a Maaco paintjob put on just before he sold it. Non my color selection and the bodywork isn't upwards to the quality I want then it'southward got to be repainted after the bodywork is brought upwards to snuff.
Trouble is, he left the body-to-bumper cushions (rubber spacers between the torso and the bumper underneath the rear taillights) on the car when it was painted and didn't mask them off.
What'southward the best way to remove pigment from rubber without damaging the rubber? I want to try to use the existing parts rather than buy new ones.
Thanks!!!

Maybe TSP, which is in whatever hardware's pigment section. It unremarkably doesn't attack plastic, which is what near condom is. It will corrode metal and etch drinking glass, and so be conscientious. Some other idea is Super Make clean, at Walmart. I have used it to remove paint/chrome from the plastic dash trim. Many model builders use it. You need to let is soak 1-two days, so wet rags with it and wrap with plastic pic so it doesn't dry. I did find that it attacks aluminum rapidly when I held downwardly some parts with an aluminum slice.
WD-forty or Goo B Gone have worked well for me in the by.
if they are off the auto try twisting them back and forth most of the time it will popular off......Artie
Catalyzed automotive paint? My bet is nothing will faze it except something like aircraft stripper. Grade, yous'll desire to remove them offset. They'll be make clean every bit a whistle in minutes and complimentary of damage.
Why not pullthe bumpers in and just doaway with the spacers? That would resolve the issue alltogether
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I usually carefully scrape safe with a precipitous knife at a 90 degree angle.
I've used lacquer thinner with success. If you go the rag damp and hold information technology on there for a few minutes so start to wipe, it volition unremarkably commencement dissolving off. Be careful not to get information technology on anything you don't want stripped. One time removed, make clean actually well and put on a protectant.
A little flake of Brake Fluid will take the paint off in a hurry, just wash the pieces with some soap & water afterward.
Anybody who's e'er spilled some brake fluid on a fenderwell or firewall knows what I'1000 talking well-nigh, it'll take the pigment to bare shiny metal about equally quick as you lot tin can say "Sunuva"

I've used it to remove paint from rubber components in the past, information technology doesn't attack/swallow safety, since a lot of stuff in your brake system is prophylactic (master cylinder seals and the gasket under the cap, brake hoses, wheel cylinder & caliper seals, etc)

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