Wow. Citristrip works great for removing side-art.

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I have a painted over Time Pilot. Side art was TRASHED. Was really dreading removing the GIANT side art. Don't have a Heat Gun. I thought I'd try letting Citristrip sit on the side art only for 24hrs. after I stripped the paint using Citristrip. To my surprise, the side art just fell off. It turned to a big happy elastic piece of rubber. I had it all off within 2 minutes.

Check it:

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I love the stuff, just used it tonight to remove a thick layer of latex paint from a pinball backbox. Smells nice too, considering what it does. :]
 
Would this work for removing paint on top of painted on artwork (specifically Robotron). I tried using a heat gun on one side, but it didn't work very well and of course, very labor intensive. I'd like to try and keep the Robotron artwork underneath if this stuff would remove extra layers of paint on top of it.
 
Would this work for removing paint on top of painted on artwork (specifically Robotron). I tried using a heat gun on one side, but it didn't work very well and of course, very labor intensive. I'd like to try and keep the Robotron artwork underneath if this stuff would remove extra layers of paint on top of it.

I have a painted over MS Pac I want to strip. The artwork underneath is shot so I just want to strip it down to the wood and redo. My feeling is that once painted on artwork is covered there's no way to save it unless it's a latex paint then maybe... But I have no experience with this so I don't really know.

Will Citristrip completely take my MS Pac down to the wood easily?]
 
Would this work for removing paint on top of painted on artwork (specifically Robotron). I tried using a heat gun on one side, but it didn't work very well and of course, very labor intensive. I'd like to try and keep the Robotron artwork underneath if this stuff would remove extra layers of paint on top of it.

Let me answer you (if it was painted over with oil based paint)
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=93595&highlight=robotron

If it was black spray paint maybe you could save it - try goof off graffiti remover
 
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Yeah, I tried goof off...besides starting to get a headache from the fumes when I used it, it didn't seem to make much of a dent in the paint.

Fumes are bad - sorry I didn't warn you about that one ;)
I took paper towels - sprayed them down and let them sit for about 20 minutes. Remove and wipe. It works great for spray paint removal however if it's oil based paint citrus strip works great but I'm afraid your artwork underneath will suffer. My robotron artwork was a 100% loss.
 
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