How Do You Remove Paint From ABS Plastic?
Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene or ABS plastic is used to make molded, relatively light products. It’s used to create everything from plastic piping and automotive body parts to musical instruments and certain types of golf club heads. If you need to remove paint from ABS plastic, you’re pretty fortunate; ABS plastic is hard and nonporous; making it an extremely unsuitable surface for paint adhesion. Still, before you attempt to remove paint from ABS plastic, you’ll need to apply a lubricant or you may end up damaging the very surface you are trying to salvage. Apply a few drops of olive oil to a rag and rub it on the paint on the ABS plastic. Massage the olive oil into the paint moving in a circular, clockwise motion. Lay the plastic on a flat, hard surface. Scrape away the paint using a plastic putty knife. Use a rag as a buffer between the putty knife and the ABS plastic to prevent unintentional abrasions to the surface. Move on to Step 3 only if any paint remains on the plastic. Da
