Removing overspray from chrome?

any tips or tricks?

 

A Clay Bar will reove it with no problem. You can find them in the wax section of your local parts store.

 

super fine steel wool...or rag or buffing wheel w/ cleaner polish

 

Clay bar works great and is EZ!

 

Rag with thinner, then follow with windex/polish. Easy!

 

I favour the steel wool. 00 or 000.

 

lacquer thinner

 

Detail Clay, those that say otherwise have never tried it.

 

I`ve tried it. I prefer to use the clay on paint. Wool for chrome. Try both and choose for yourself.

 

Ah crap! I've always busted it out with a plastic spoon. Oh well, idle hands are the devil's playground.
xxx
Brandy

 

I get some stuff at the truck stops called magic wadding compound. It comes inpregnated into cotton and works great for cleaning stainless and chrome of bugs, tar, paint and general grung, plus it buffs to a nice shine. I hadn't heard of the clay but am anxious to try that.

 

Stay away from wire wool, windex, and powerbuffing with anything.
you'll remove the chrome in a heartbeat.
Thinners or regular paint stripper and a cloth.
Only way to go.

 

Listen to Polisher.

Removing overspray with steel wool is like trying to shave your face with a grinder. It'll work, but...

 

I have used Autosol Polish. It worked great.

 

Autosol by the way also slowly digests chrome.
Ammonia.
Eitherway, you thin paint with thinners.
Best thing to remove it off chrome.
If it's old overspray go to acetone if regular thinners aren't tough enough or polish it off by hand with a quality, ammonia and anhydrous free polish.

 

Another vote for the Lacquer Thinner on a rag, Have been in the autobody world for years and thats whats been used forever.

Also, after 20 minutes of rubbing and checking your work you start feeling really mellow for some reason and can't remember why the overspray was bothering you in the first place.

 

Here's another reason for not using fine wire wool, apart from the fact it removes the chrome if you give it too much.
Chrome has micropores and cracks, which is why it is so successfull for use on cranks, it retains oil.
When you rub with wire wool you impregnate the surface with minute particles of iron.
The iron oxidizes and you got RUST !!
It doesn't take a lot to figure out.
I reckon no advice is better than bad advice.

 

don,t sand it ! use rubbing compound with a shot of lacquer thinner in it.... just mix a little at a time because the thinner will dry out the compound for any future use.

 

seems like 3m , dupont , or meguires came out with something for fine overspray removal .....try your local paint store....they should have more info .....i may have seen it in the dupont refinisher magazine.......the clay bar works wonders too ......my neighbor had me fix a fender ding on her monte carlo.......she told me about having a shop fix her black lumina ...and how they removed the clear coat on the rest of the car......i told her that wasn't quite possible .....she said it had a dry feeling to it......and how she sold the car because of it .....i told her about the clay bar.....and i thought she was going to have heart attack .....oh well ...sometimes you have to ask .......haha brandon

 

SOS pad with the soap in it

 

Paint stripper, the stinky shit that says "aircraft remover" on it, as long as you're careful if the part is on the car. If it's just a fine mist and your chrome part is still on the car, tape off the perimiter and clean it with laquer thinner. Don't want to smear up a clean paint finish with laquer thinner if the part is still on the car. If it's off the car, slop the bastard up with aircraft remover and take it all off in one easy step. I worked at a chrome shop for a couple years and I've seen so many good chrome pieces go to shit from SOS or plain steel wool. unless its 000000000000000000000000 grade steel wool, it will scratch.

I will say this in SOS's defence. If you have a chrome part that's super pitted and looks like shit, SOS will clean it off and make it look better. But if you're chrome is nice and you're just trying to get some paint off of it, don't even think about it.

 

"Aircraft Remover" doesn't work!!!!!

I poured it all over one of our planes that won't stop with the electrical problems and the cracked cylinders, and the next morning... the plane was still there!!!!!!!!!!!


Stupid plane.

 

I disagree. I once hit a Cessna with my '60 Fury and it got stuck in the grille. Cleaned off nice with the remover.

 

3M makes a product called "General Purpose Adhesive Remover" that works
awesome for getting stuff off. Give it a try.

 

I explained about wire wool and bad chemicals such as ammonia and other anhydrous and you still advocate SOS pads!?
I do this kind of stuff for a living and supply and advise major museums on restoration.
Am I missing something??

 

They're simply posting without reading a single word that was posted before.

 

I hate bad advice.
That's what cost me a dog and got me a wife.
Don't think I'll ever recover !!

 

Damn!