Rusty Driver
Posts: 108
Joined: Tue Dec 04, 2012 4:50 pm
Location: Huntingtown, Maryland
Data Plate resto
Time to work on my data plate.... currently, the data plate is difficult to read... looks like years ago some PO tried to protect the data plate by applying a clear plastic-cote or lacquer finish... but it is uneven and has fogged over.... would like to remove this coating, without destroying the black mask....
Have been accessing the various ways artwork is cleaned and/or restored, as well as soaking in lacquer thinner (don't like), baking soda and boiling water (not to thrilled), copious amounts of brass-o (?), a mixture of acetone and denatured alcohol and scrubbed with steel wool (huh?), none of which seem safe....
How do you folks address this issue? or do you leave the sleeping dogs lay?
Any/all advice/comments appreciated
PMH