San Francisco
Williams, 1964I have a Williams San Francisco that someone painted the cabinet over with plain white paint. I can still see the outline of the art underneath and the stencil is not available for this cabinet art. Someone had suggested it could be removed using "mild solvents and heat". but I'm not sure what kind of solvents. Has anyone done this successfully? If so, what did you use?
Quoted from radial_head:Probably not.
Your best course of action is to repaint the whole cabinet.
What he wants to do is get enough paint off to recover the art and make stencils?
start with rubbing alc and magic eraser
I just looked at the ipdb for SF
https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2049&picno=62548&zoom=1
Simple enough pattern. With the right level of compensation you could get Jeff Miller to make stencils off of the ipdb pic along with cab measurements from you.
good luck
I had a blackout that was painted with hammer tone green
I used the wife's hair dryer and a scraper
1st pic was just using a scrapper then i thought of using wife's hair dryer
Before
Green cab (3) (resized).jpg
headbox (resized).jpg
20171217_064523 (resized).jpg
Then to clean it up 3M scotch-brite and isocol rubbing alcoholic
Backbox stripped (resized).jpg
Left side stripped (resized).jpg
then i just buffed and waxed the cab
Quoted from Pinoffski:I had a blackout that was painted with hammer tone green
I used the wife's hair dryer and a scraper
1st pic was just using a scrapper then i thought of using wife's hair dryer
Before
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Then to clean it up 3M scotch-brite and isocol rubbing alcoholic
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then i just buffed and waxed the cab
Damn! Lots of elbow grease there. Fantastic results!
I had a f14 that was painted. I just sanded off the top coat of paint. Be carful not to burn through to quickly because it can quickly take off more then you want. Then I just touched up the paint and called it good enough.
You may want to try Googone. If the paint is latex, it should take it off without affecting the original artwork. At this point you have nothing to loose... Good luck.
If it fails, the cabinet can be repainted, I just did my first one very recently. Read the advise on the forum and revert here for advise and suggestion. Take your time and it should turn out ok.
Quoted from Pinoffski:then i just buffed and waxed the cab
Quoted from ToucanF16:Damn! Lots of elbow grease there. Fantastic results!
Have to agree, terrific results!
Quoted from Bele20097:You may want to try Googone. If the paint is latex, it should take it off without affecting the original artwork.
Yes, if latex, that should work. Also, Rustoleum's Krud Kutter latex paint remover works well.
Quoted from rolf_martin_062:Hi amymcg
don't get angry - I first would make the pin run 100% - then thinking about restoring / repainting. Greetings Rolf
Oh, not angry at all, just thinking about future stuff. Definitely cosmetics are last on the list.
Quoted from ReadyPO:Yes, if latex, that should work. Also, Rustoleum's Krud Kutter latex paint remover works well.
I wish I had known this about my most recent project I took on!
Oh well, next time.
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