Removing that silly painted-on orange tip !
 

Hey guys !

I recently got a Classic Army G36 and by asking one of my experienced friend if he had a trick to removed that silly painted-on orange tip, he recommended using a furniture varnish remover wich worked absolutely great, the remover not affecting the baked paint of the barrel at all and leaving the whole thing like it was never there in the first place !

So I tried the same trick on my brand new G&G UMG and althought it removed quite a bit of it, there's still quite alot of residue stuck on there. Now the flash hider/outter barrel of the UMG not being easily removable, it's quite tricky to mess around with the varnish remover so close to the plastic parts that can melt by it.

So my question is : what are your other tricks to remove those painted-on orange tips ?

You can try brake fluid (i.e. linen oil). It's safe for plastic.

poly stripper and a wire toothbrush but be carefull it will eat plastic but it will also eat pretty much anything including skin then finish it off with some high temp BBQ paint and your good to go.

The thing is tho you want to preserve the "baked-on" paint of the outer barrel underneath it...

Yeah I heard that one before but I wonder, if the furniture varnish remover couldn't do it, is the brake fluid really that strong (or preferably, stronger) ? Also will it leave the "baked-on" paint underneath unscathed ?

What is the name of the product that you used that worked well on you Classic Army AEG?

What was the method that you used??

Circa 1850 Furniture Stripper
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I just diped in the painted tip and right away it starts to bubble and peel off, then I just scrubed away the recesses with a toothbrush. After you clean the whole thing up with hot water, some all purpose cleaner and youre done. Took a whole 5 min to do and it looked brand new, didn't affect the undercoat at all.

Finallly I tried a few things on the UMG. It was really a tough job since it doesn't have a removable flash hider or barrel. I've tried again with the furniture varnish remover, leaving it in longer but just the vapors of the damn thing started to screw with some of the ABS parts so I had to find another solution.

The nail varnish remover was a joke, didn't affect anything. I finallly tried the Easy-off oven cleaner. At first it pretty much had the same effect has as the furniture varnish remover, so I left it on a little while to see what would happen. Big mistake. That thing is strong ! Ate right thru the baked on paint to the bare metal. Well so much for keeping the undercoat intact. So I scrubed off all the remainning particles of paint on the bare metal, bought some high quality metal primer (black primer for car paint) and some high quality metal paint / mat black finish and after about 2 primer coats + 6 finish coats, you couldn't tell the difference so it turned out ok in the end.

I wish I could've tried the brake fluid too, might've had some better luck. If anybody else out there knows about any other tricks, feel free to post them on this thread !