omg pissed
 

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr


well im pretty much a noob at taking off paint from an xmod and yea well.....

theres thinner and all that stuff to take out enamel paint

but NEVER USE ACETONE

well i didnt really know acetone is bad for xmods

my story is...

i was trying to get all the paint off of my xmod so i can repaint it in a gunmetal color, and i would have sanded it BUT, im not the patient type so i went for thinners. I asked the guy at walmart what is great for taking out enamel paints and he said acetone would be the best. I bought a big carton of it and filled up a small bucket. I didnt want to just rub the paint off with the acetone, so i decided just to let it sit in acetone for a while. WELL in about 5 minutes i pulled out the body frame to check up on it and it looked liek it was working, i kinda rubbed on it a little and to my surprise i wasnt just rubbing off the paint i was also rubbing off the PLASTIC! the whole body was very weak and wobbly and yea. well this just aggravated me so i just said screw it and i left in in there overnight. Acetone is very strong and it evaporates quickly, so the next day i checked up on it and all i saw was a bucket lined with plastic. bahhh guess im getting a new xmod : /

ouch... yea know what youre doing b4 u do anything...

yea well the carton said nothing about EATING AWAY PLASTIC

well considering it's ACETONE... :eek:

well the mistake was putting it back in there over night ;) -- had you just left the body sit to dry, it mighta evaperated out of the plastic... and stayed put...

no heres the thing, it looked like it was melting.

there was nothing i could do....

R.I.P.
Darkjesters rsx

i was actually in the process of fabricating a sunroof.
i had the hole cut out and everything. i was gonna use plexiglass as the glass. all i had to do was paint the car

if u left it out to dry it would re-strengthen.
anyway...
u dont need to take off all stock paint b4 u paint.
hell, i paint with stock paint on.
just look at my job...

oops...

I'll buy the chassis. Or you could go to Cj's xmod faq, get the body's part number, and order it. It'll be like 12 bucks.

Edit: 9 bucks with shipping for a new body.