Taito cab: what's the safest stripper?

MIKE96

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I have a couple Taito cabs that are painted over. On one of them I use Citristrip to remove the black paint and it ended up not only stripping the black paint but the original Taito stencil as well. My question is is there anything thing that might be lighter to just take off the paint layer and not the original Taito art?
3M Safest Stripper??? any help? thanks
 
also being the owner of a black taito cabinet i have only had bad luck at this, tried several differing things and most would not remove the black paint at all, the ones that would remove the paint also took up the original Taito paint.

looks like i will be repainting my cabinet completely
 
On taito's you're not going to have much luck. The art is not really very resilient on those and any stripper will most likely remove it. Even many common cleaners today will attack taito art like Greased Lightning.
 
thank I appreciate the help, its gonna be sad to strip it because on one of them painted black I see a small chip and it's the darker blue and could possibly be a Space Dungeon cab, the others painted over I see chips off are the green JK/JH cabs.
 
thank I appreciate the help, its gonna be sad to strip it because on one of them painted black I see a small chip and it's the darker blue and could possibly be a Space Dungeon cab, the others painted over I see chips off are the green JK/JH cabs.

Mike, unfortunately I think you're going to have to strip her down to wood.

I also found a Space Dungeon cab awile back thats been converted a couples time over. I must tried over a half dozen stripping products out there w/ no luck; I just threw in the towel...
 
well, there is one option to try although it's slow and tedious. You can use goof off in the spray can, spray small areas at a time.. don't wipe and don't really soak it. Just enough so that when the goof off dries the paint is soft. When you have that condition, you can take wide packing or duct tape and try to yank the paint off as if you were getting hair waxed. I've done that a few times in the past with some success but it takes freakin forever.
 
I have a couple Taito cabs that are painted over. On one of them I use Citristrip to remove the black paint and it ended up not only stripping the black paint but the original Taito stencil as well. My question is is there anything thing that might be lighter to just take off the paint layer and not the original Taito art?
3M Safest Stripper??? any help? thanks

Not much help in answering your original question, but if your cab used standard Taito stencils, they are available at gamestencils.com for a mere $60:
http://www.gamestencils.com/index.php?crn=211

I've never had luck stripping top layer paint off stenciled cabs. In each case using multiple different methods, it always ended up either stripping off part of the original paint or just looked bad afterward.
The cabs I've tried were all spray enamel or oil based....I think most have a lot better luck if the cab was painted with water based latex.

Anyway..good luck either way...you'll have to post a few pics if you are successful or if you decide to use stencils to repaint ;)
 
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