I recently obtained a Gottlieb Royal Flush in very good condition, but the previous owners painted the cabinet white with latex paint. Doesn't look bad, but I want to make it original. I tried citrustrip and it works great but it also softens paint underneath and as I was scraping the latex off it was smearing the red and black paint underneath the latex. I've heard of soaking the latex in alcohol, but seems like that would be a huge pain. Is there any way I can apply, scrape and be left with what's underneath? Or is it best to just strip to wood and start over?

#2 3 years ago

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Isochronic_Frost

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Quoted from tcape61:
I recently obtained a Gottlieb Royal Flush in very good condition, but the previous owners painted the cabinet white with latex paint. Doesn't look bad, but I want to make it original. I tried citrustrip and it works great but it also softens paint underneath and as I was scraping the latex off it was smearing the red and black paint underneath the latex. I've heard of soaking the latex in alcohol, but seems like that would be a huge pain. Is there any way I can apply, scrape and be left with what's underneath? Or is it best to just strip to wood and start over?

Citristrip you can try painting it on extremely thin and try different lengths of time, 10-15 minutes or so. Using that method I was able to take off spray-paint and not damage the paint underneath but I accidentally left part on for 30 minutes and it went right down to bare wood. It’s really finicky

#3 3 years ago

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Jjsmooth

Pincinnati

9y 104K 3,582 14 8

Since someone bothered to paint over it, the original paint probably isn't worth saving.
I'm sure u can get stencils from pimp.

#4 3 years ago

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ForceFlow

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Quoted from Jjsmooth:
Since someone bothered to paint over it, the original paint probably isn't worth saving.

That's not always the case. I've seen plenty of restoration threads with people who removed paint and the original artwork underneath was fine.

Just like with antique furniture, some people simply get it into their heads that they need to paint over something to fit with their ideas on interior decorating.

#5 3 years ago

BOB

supermatt

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Beverly, MA

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I’ve done the alcohol soaked rag method before on a Klondike and got great results. It was a lot of time consuming work but well worth it in the end. Other than a couple of small dings the artwork was in great shape. I have no idea why anyone would have painted over it.

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