Simple Green Question

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**LiberatedObject**

I did a search and didn't find anything, so I thought I'd pose a quick question. What is the best ratio of Simple Green to water if I was wanting to strip paint off of models? I just put some metal models in a 1SG:4W mix, but am wondering if I should add more SG.

**Zefig**

I normally just use straight simple green. I've left metal and plastic models in for a week or so and I've never had any bad experiences. Well, except even that'll leave paint in the deepest recesses a lot of the time, depending on what they were originally painted with.

**Corey85**

Pure simple green and an old tooth brush really did the job on a bunch of old metal warmachine models I picked up a few months back. I'm in the process of doing final high lighting on them so needless to say it worked just fine.

**JunkyOrk**

Working on my orks from way back when I started this hobby, simple green straight no diluting needed. Give it a few hours maybe overnight for metal or heavily coated models. Took an old toothbrush and they look new now.

**Thaanos**

I've left my models in undiluted Simple Green for over a month, and there was no problem with the mini's.

**MechaEmperor7000**

It'll stain metal, but apart from that it wont do anything to the minis. It's not strong enough.

**LiberatedObject**

Well, thought I'd update. Using the mixture I stated in my opening post, I was able to get most of the paint off. I'm soaking it again, in a 1:3 mixture of SG to H2O, and will see if I can get the rest of the paint off.

**Corey85**

That's true about the metal staining, but I didn't find it to affect priming or painting.

**Thaanos**

Really? it's never stained my metal models.