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Comments about Circa 1850 Circa 1850 Soft Strip:
The product worked best for me after I let it do its job for 24 hours. Yes, it's true that the paint started bubbling after about 30 minutes - the cabinet doors I wanted to strip the paint off had two good layers on - but for best results, I came back the next day. The paint was coming right off, no scraping needed!
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from Canada on 2/20/2009
Comments about Circa 1850 Circa 1850 Soft Strip:
I used this to strip some painted kitchen cabinet doors. The directions say to leave on for 15 minutes but I had to wait at least 45 to get the paint dissolved enough to scrape. Any stripping job is going to be messy and time consuming. Not worring about noxious fumes was my main reason for using this product. It actually smells very mild and pleasant.
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from Cedar Park, TX on 9/20/2008
Comments about Circa 1850 Circa 1850 Soft Strip:
I purchased this stripper on the recommendations of others who play various miniature games based on metal models. I had an "incident" with a bad primer job on my latest batch and wanted to remove the primer and start over.
This product did admirably well - most of the primer started falling off within minutes, and by the time I left things standing for the fifteen minutes on the directions, I had no trouble at all removing the primer - minus the fact that this stuff on latex stripping gloves gives all the traction of wet soap, so I did drop my figure several times.
The stripper rinses off very easily, and did not appear to damage either the superglue like glue (Zap a Gap is the brand), nor the green stuff I used on some of the joints. However, after a little while, it became apparent that the product was melting/dissolving the cheap plastic toothbrush I was using, and started to distort/melt the plastic bases of the two miniatures I was working with. To this day they still smell vaguely of the stripper, leaving me with some concerns that the stripper has somehow bonded into the plastic - which should make re-priming an interesting exercise.
Overall I would still recommend this product - but do not soak the model in a pool of this stuff. Apply it just to the metal areas with a toothbrush you don't mind replacing :)