A shot gun should scare them off..............oh the varnish, has he tried paint thinners? or tar remover as i imagine varnish and tar are both oil based

 

Try with weak products and natural products 1st.
Olive oil ?Swarfega ? No way use thinners.

 

Meths ? White Spirit ?

Be very careful though!

 

These may work.
"big industrial wipes". They are like a baby wipe (similar dispenser) but are used to clean paint, adhesive, oil, mastic, grease from hands, tools and surfaces.
We get our from Dulux Decorators Centres who are a nationwide stockist. See yellow pages under "Decorators Merchants".
Try a small area first.
Hope it works.

 

These may work.
"big industrial wipes". They are like a baby wipe (similar dispenser) but are used to clean paint, adhesive, oil, mastic, grease from hands, tools and surfaces.
We get our from Dulux Decorators Centres who are a nationwide stockist. See yellow pages under "Decorators Merchants".
Try a small area first.
Hope it works.

Would advise him to ask a local bodyshop or maybe Mr Mark Wax Wizard could help?

 

If you have A LOT of wax on your car, you may be able to just pressure wash it off. This is one of the few times you would usea pressure lance cloder than 18" to body work.

Acrylic or polyurethane based varnish?

Acrylic will be harder to remove (if it has gone off) since it reponds less well to softening techniques. For this reason emuslion paint is far harder to remove once hardened, than gloss. Acrylic varnish will need cutting out - you might be able to do this your self if it is a small localised area, otherwise go to your loacl body shop.

It's probably oil based varnish (most are) in which case:

1. Apply vaseline to area immediatley around varnish

2. Soak a rag in either Autoglym tar and glue remover or liquid lighter fuel, or either mixed with white spirit.

3. Cover area with the rag and cover that in an old towel to prevent drying out.

4. Leave overnight.

5. Test to see if it has softened.

6. rub gently - it should lift - wit ha clean rag soaked with solvent.

7. Re wax.

 

My mate had a bucket of paint poured over his BMW and got it off with petrol.

 

Sorry to hear of your friends problem - bedsteds indeed. But then Pitsea ain't the best of areas

Moley

 

Cheers for all your help Guys, i have passed the info onto him.

I will let you know how he does. ts been dried on for a time so it will be alot harder to get off.

Thanks again

Chris

 

Moved to off topic as I couldn't see anything to do with TT's.
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