720 art, the yellowing, and the stripping

joeycuda

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Over a few evenings, I stripped the 'Ultimate Aerial Experience' piece off, sanded, primered, and painted the piece.

Tonight, I pulled the speaker overlay off and stripped the panel. When peeling the old overlay off, the plastic would peel off with every layer of ink but the silver. The silver stayed on the metal panel, on top of the black finish. It made sense why it yellowed. It didn't seem that the inks changed color at all, but the plastic overlay material yellowed badly, like the bubble on a carded action figure from the 80s often does. Through that once clear, now yellow tinted plastic, everything looks bad.

Took several applications of very strong stripper that burned my hands a little..scraping..and rinsing with water. I used a spray can automotive paint stripper. That was the worst piece, not counting whole cabinets, that I've ever had to strip. That adhesive is a nightmare.
 
yeah whatever brand of polycarbonate Atari was using then yellowed bad
and has happened to alot of differnt piece.
the silver stayed behind since its the last color to be printed and the adhesive bond to that is stronger then the inks to the poly.

thats why cpos start to bubble or delaminate as well.
 
Yeah, thanks.. I'm worried about delamination, but almost more worried about alignment. I think i can pull it off, but that speaker/marquee looks tough!

I'm taking the pieces down to bare metal, then primer, then RustOleum satin black, then dry for a week.
 
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