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Hi all,

I need your help. I want to remove the glue on the on the plastic model after I have put the glue on the pig ear to hold it in place. I have snapped it when I fell over on the door step as it was an accident. When I sealed the glue on pig ear to hold it, i saw there is a glue coming down from the top while I hold it. I tried to wash it off using with the hot water but I couldn't be able to get it off because it got dried so it was too late.

I don't mean to be funny but this is my mum and it wasn't mine. Do you know how I could be able to remove the glue on the pig face without cause any harm to the paint on the plastic model?

Any advice would be much appreciate.

Thanks in advance!

depends precisely on the type of glue you used. Do you have anymore info?
Looking for terms such as 'superglue', 'epoxy', white glue', 'wood glue' etc.

More information on the kind of glue you used would be helpful, as Bubber said.

Thanks for the replied guys. The glue I used is called DIY Time superglue.


I'd hope it is easy to get the glue off if I would have to buy something to get the glue off as it take time to get the glue off as I don't want to ruined this for my mum.

You can buy superglue dissolver but I don't know how this will affect the paintwork on the pig. You could also try to very carefully chip it off bit by bit. HOWEVER if the surface of the pig is porous then I don't think either option will work & I can't think of any other method. Sorry.
You could try covering it over with a matt varnish applied with an airbrush (so you can apply very thin coats which blend out to nothing at the edges). Do you have an airbrush or know someone with one?
In all cases, try the method on a bit of the pig you can't see like the underside of one of its feet.
Good luck!

 bubber wrote:
You can buy superglue dissolver but I don't know how this will affect the paintwork on the pig. You could also try to very carefully chip it off bit by bit. HOWEVER if the surface of the pig is porous then I don't think either option will work & I can't think of any other method. Sorry.
You could try covering it over with a matt varnish applied with an airbrush (so you can apply very thin coats which blend out to nothing at the edges). Do you have an airbrush or know someone with one?
In all cases, try the method on a bit of the pig you can't see like the underside of one of its feet.
Good luck!

Thanks for your advice. Do you know where I can buy superglue dissolver online?

I want to get a good one that will safety remove the superglue without ruined the paintwork.

Here is I found a few:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Loctite-Glue-Remover-Removes-Stains/dp/B0001P0DKG

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Everbuild-Stick2-Superglue-Bonder-bonding/dp/B0012RGLBM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1533757848&sr=8-3&keywords=super+glue+dissolver


I am not sure if one of them are good or not. If I have to use one of them, can I apply them on the cotton swab or paint brush so I could tip it on the glue patch carefully and use the toilet paper to wipe it off quickly with a water to stop the paintwork get damage?

If so, do I have to get something to cover over on the pig to stop the glue dissolver get on the paintwork?

If I am at risk to ruined the paintwork, would that be a good idea if I put the pig in the freezer for few mins to few hours to make the superglue go soft so I could get them off?

P.S Sorry I don't have airbrush and I dont know someone who have it.

The freezer won't make standard superglue soft; what it makes it is more brittle. So that it snaps and breaks its bonds more easily.

If you try to scrape it off very carefully with a blade then the freezer might well help as it could help break the bonds that are holding it to the pig when you come to scrape with the blade.

 Overread wrote:
The freezer won't make standard superglue soft; what it makes it is more brittle. So that it snaps and breaks its bonds more easily.

If you try to scrape it off very carefully with a blade then the freezer might well help as it could help break the bonds that are holding it to the pig when you come to scrape with the blade.

I dont want to use the blade as I could damage the paintwork.

I want to use something like superglue dissolver to get the superglue remove.

Did you see the links I posted?

Would either of them work without cause any damage to the paintwork?

I've never used superglue dissolver to know the ins and outs of how it works or what materials it might damage.

 Overread wrote:
I've never used superglue dissolver to know the ins and outs of how it works or what materials it might damage.

Ok no worry. I hope someone will post it and tell me what I have to do.

Do you know what type of material is the pig? is it poly or plastic models or something like that?

does anyone know?????????????

In my experience, super-glue debonders also remove paint.

No matter what you do, you're probably going to remove paint - whether by applying debonder to a specific area or scraping.

There's no way to remove that crustiness without some damage.

Your questions HAVE been answered. It's not our fault you don't like the answers.

You're going to remove paint if you try to remove that glue, end of story. Any dissolver will also remove paint, and scraping will remove paint. Your options are leave it, or repaint it/get it repainted.

I can't tell if it's a gift or if it's your moms and you broke it and are trying to avoid telling her, but it sounds like the latter. If that's the case, time to suck it up and talk to her before you make it WORSE by trying to get the glue off. If it's a gift, I doubt she's going to care.

I would just use some kind of matt varnish. It would hopefully cover the shininess of the glue and thus make it more difficult to see.