Safe way to detach glued parts?

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**Shadowbrand**

Just wondering if there's a special way to do this. Or some chemical I can unbound them with, the model's are held together by Zappa Gap brand glue.

**Izirath**

The thing about plastic glue is that it melts the components and combines them making a very strong bound. I'm usually able to snap of limbs and stuff, though if I've used extra much glue it sometimes snaps at the shoulder or such.

My advice is to make a slight slice across the section where you want it to snap, and gently bend until breaking point.

**Blackeagle**

Assuming im right in thinking zap a gap is super glue, you can do two things: Twist with a small amount of pressure to break the bond (This wont work too well on fine joints as you will most likely damage the parts)

Or you can put the mini in a freezer, the cooling of the glue should cause it to go brittle and snap easily.

**Pherion**

If its not plastic and you don't mind fumes... Acetone will work wonders (thats nail polish remover for you efemant types).

Drop it in and leave it over night. The glue will turn to mush, and you can get it all off with a toothpick or the like.

Point of note: this will also remove any paint.

use a mask! Acetone fumes can knock you out.

**oadie**

If you look over the numerous discussions on stripping paint, a bunch of people have commented on which products/solvents melt which glues, which are plastic-safe, etc. In my limited personal experience, Simple Green didn't weaken a superglue bond at all over the course of 3 or so days and sticking the model in the freezer didn't seem to help at all. Then again, it depends on what you need to disassemble. The freezer trick probably works much better on little limbs than it does on pieces like mine, which had a rather large surface area, comparatively.

**Todosi**

I would be quite careful using acetone as that is one of the solvents for styrene. Meaning if you aren't lucky, then your models will melt!

**Leigen_Zero**

A jewellers saw and a very steady hand if your just removing simple arms (e.g. arms on a ork boy or something)

**Breotan**

Fingernail polish has a low level of acitone in it. You can buy the lemon kind so at least the smell is bearable and after an hour or two your glue should be sufficiently dissolved to where you can pull it apart and scrape off the glue.