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I've been using dettol primarily, but it's a bit naff, so I decided to switch to fairy power spray, as I'd heard that it was a fair bit better, didn't burn your hands, and didn't stink, however I can't seem to find it anyway. I've checked Wilkinsons, the Co-op, Sainsbury, Tesco, and it's simply not in any of the sections, is it still a thing?

Is there someone else I can use? Or even source simple green in the UK?

Jings. I can find it in the pokey little shops in my tow... villa... cluster of old houses. You must be really unlucky...

You know what it looks like, right?

I researched this before getting my last batch of Dettol and I read that very few places are now stocking it, which seems to be true in my neck of the woods as the local Asda, Tesco and Morrisons didn't have it.

Well, I was going to say use the company website to locate a store that its distributed to, but it seems like whomever at P&G neglected to include such a function in the supersavvyme. I know the Dawn webssite has a store finder over here to help us find Dawn Power Dissolver.

Have you tried asking the store managers where it might be found?

I got mine from Wilkinsons 3 weeks ago.

I got one recently, two or three months ago and I have seen it in other shops since.

However, to experiment on just how good Power Spray is, having seen it highly recommended in various threads, I put a space marine backpack into a pot of the stuff for twenty-four hours. Next day, the paint was completely solid and untouched.

So, I put it back in and left it for over a month. The Power Spray still had zero effect. I put the backpack into some Diall paint stripper which I get from B&Q (and which I normally use but the stuff is like snot and I thought the Power Spray might be better) for about two hours and the paint fell off in one big, disgusting skin.

In my local Sainsbury's, it's with the washing up liquid not the other cleaners.

I recommend biostrip:
http://www.biostrip.co.uk/paint-stripping/biostrip-20-paint-stripper-500ml-tub.html

It's probably a bit better than power spray, and it works great on plastic.

I've heard good things about the acetone free nail polish remover from Superdrug (as in the super drug own brand stuff). I've actually got a bottle of it for when I might next need to strip a model...

I might chuck something in it tonight and post result tomorrow if that'd be of any help?

D

 evildrcheese wrote:
I've heard good things about the acetone free nail polish remover from Superdrug (as in the super drug own brand stuff). I've actually got a bottle of it for when I might next need to strip a model...

I might chuck something in it tonight and post result tomorrow if that'd be of any help?

D

I am assuming the acetone free means it wont melt your mini? As all previous other encounters with a nail polish remover have been very much a quick application to remove the paint, with extended dips resulting in a missing mini

I've used another brand's power degreaser and it worked just as well as Fairy.

If you're in the UK, you have a very cheap online supermarket where you can buy them (just google for it).

I might buy a selection of things then, and compare results. I had another scout around Wilkinson's, and asked a member of staff who said they didn't stock it anymore, and they didn't know why.

Maybe we should change the thread into a scientific enterprise to discover the best UK method of paint stripping?

Personally I have always had good results with Dettol althouhg it is pricey

 PastelAvenger wrote:
Personally I have always had good results with Dettol althouhg it is pricey

And stinks to high heaven.

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 PastelAvenger wrote:
Personally I have always had good results with Dettol althouhg it is pricey

And stinks to high heaven.

oh and burns your skin unmercifully

 Smacks wrote:
I recommend biostrip:
http://www.biostrip.co.uk/paint-stripping/biostrip-20-paint-stripper-500ml-tub.html

It's probably a bit better than power spray, and it works great on plastic.

This, so many times this! The stuff is fantastic, and doesn't smell at all. As a bonus if you paint it on with an old drybrush it gets rid of a lot of the crusty paint, too.

It does state to use gloves, but my fingers haven't fallen off yet, so...

Rain wrote:

 Smacks wrote:
I recommend biostrip:
http://www.biostrip.co.uk/paint-stripping/biostrip-20-paint-stripper-500ml-tub.html

It's probably a bit better than power spray, and it works great on plastic.

This, so many times this! The stuff is fantastic, and doesn't smell at all. As a bonus if you paint it on with an old drybrush it gets rid of a lot of the crusty paint, too.

It does state to use gloves, but my fingers haven't fallen off yet, so...

Have you grown any additional ones?

I used to use Dettol, and then power spray.
Both suck donkey when compared to simple pure Isoproyl Alcolhol. 99.9% pure, plastic is safe in it for periods of time I can't be bothered to measure - its too long. Paint starts coming away in seconds. The primer that dettol and fairy fail at, IPA does not fail at.