Need to remove paint safely from plastics? Here's how...

I haven't tried it on plastic lenses, but one of the best plastic cleaning products is Zep's Patio Furniture Cleaner. It's made to clean those white plastic stackable patio chairs. I recently used it to remove a white overspray on the hood of my truck. I don't know what the overspray was, but I suspect it was some road marking paint. I first tried automotive scratch remover, then polishing compound, then pure gasoline, with negative results. A couple of hard wipes with a cloth soaked with the Zep removed the overspray. Caution: Do not use on baked on enamel aluminum house gutters, it will remove the enamel and you will have nice shiny aluminum gutters. Zep is available at Home Depot, but not at Lowes.

Bill, the stuff I mentioned melts the paint just like paint stripper, except it won't eat up plastics. I was able to remove the paint without rubbing.

dave

Bill Schnakenberg wrote:

Be careful with that kind of stuff--it's selective but it's not selective for "plastic" and "paint", it's selective for particular kinds of plastic and particular kinds of paint. Read any documentation you have very carefully.