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I got a Chaos Warhound Titan in today, and it has a few nasty gobs of superglue holding the legs together, like gushing out of the seams. How can I go about removing the superglue without hurting the resin?

Careful filing or careful trimming with a knife.

Best solution would be to pin and use less glue.

Bullfrog wrote:Careful filing or careful trimming with a knife.

Best solution would be to pin and use less glue.

I wish you'd given that advice to the guy who put it together before I got it :(. I'm going to go through and pin as much as I can at this point. I wasn't sure if there was a solvent I could use to deteriorate the glue without harming the model or if scraping/trimming/filing was my only option...

Out of interest, could you put some pics up? Also with some of my metal models, when I stripped the paint with nail varnish remover the super glue softened and came off easily, however I have no idea what effect it could have on resin, so try a test piece if you can.

(Used a hobby knife to get the glue of after softened but be careful!)

I'd be wary of putting solvent onto an area that will need glueing again. If it was me I'd be scraping with a sharp knife, it should be possible to pop big bits off without damaging the model. Even if you do scratch/gouge by mistake the resin is easy enough to file/trim back into shape; or of course you could use it as battle damage.

@NoBacon - I don't have anything I can really use as a test piece :/. I'll see what I can do about popping some pics up in a bit here.

@ Bullfrog - There are quite a few parts with gobs of glue, and a few parts I'd like to take apart and re-position. If scraping will work for either that'll be great. I think the chaos warhound has plenty of battle damage on its own without my help, lol.

I remember once putting a model in a plastic baggie sprayed down with easy-off oven cleaner, I let it sit for about a week and EVERYTHING was off of that model.

Ashton

Redfinger wrote:I remember once putting a model in a plastic baggie sprayed down with easy-off oven cleaner, I let it sit for about a week and EVERYTHING was off of that model.

Ashton

Resin? Plastic? Metal?

It's probably best to carefully file it down; anything that melts super glue will DEFINITELY melt resin.

doomwillow wrote:

Redfinger wrote:I remember once putting a model in a plastic baggie sprayed down with easy-off oven cleaner, I let it sit for about a week and EVERYTHING was off of that model.

Ashton

Resin? Plastic? Metal?

It was a resin model, the model was fine and none of the detail was lost.

Ashton

You could try freezing the parts and carefully chipping it off.

Nail polish (acetone) remover WILL damage resin.

I have no real evidence to back this up, but I suspect resin might not respond well to freezing - does anyone have any knowledge on this?

Try "un-cure".

If you don't have a test piece of resin, put some superglue on the bottom of a foot, let it dry a day or two, then see what the solvent does to it.

Also, the advice on freezing helps as well.

Super clean dissolves glue joints and paint. If you soak the model in some super clean for a few days it will weaken the joints.

Gauss weaponry should fix it right up.

Owain wrote:It's probably best to carefully file it down; anything that melts super glue will DEFINITELY melt resin.

Do you know this from experience? I recently used acetone to remove a rare earth magnet from a metal model, and put some aceton on left over resin bits to see the result. The result was, I saw no visual difference after the aceton had evaporated (note: I did not actually soak the piece in it, just put some on with a brush). I was putting together a forge world crisis suit at the time and incorrectly glues the foot to the leg, dropped a bit of aceton on it and then it came loose again after applying a little pressure by inserting a hobby knife in between the leg bulb and the foot.

It might work to soften the glue so you can easily scrape it off using a knife without damaging the resin, but afaik as resin is a plastic aceton IS supposed to actually desolve it (maybe it just takes longer), so caution is adviced either way.

It works on other thermosetting plastics.
I'VE used it on resin to separate parts that were superglued together.

There was some minor chipping when I separated the pieces, but the superglue itself chipped off very easily afterwards.

Most of the superglue debonders WILL harm resin.
That's just a side effect of the solvents required to undo the chemistry involved.