The Answer is.....Avgas

[Bartman]

The question is; How do you remove Stewart Systems EkoFill and EkoPoly overspray?

I was cleaning parts with avgas and needed a 3/4" wrench. My 3/4" wrench was covered on one side with overspray so, without even thinking about it, I wiped it off with the rag that had 100LL on it and in a few swipes it was clean!

Just cleaned my face shield using regular gasoline so that works too. The spray must be really charged up because it spreads out and pushes its way into everything even inside cabinets and drawers.

Avgas. Now we know.

 

[Bob Turner]

Is that good news, or not? I may need a trick like that to remove white glue from a brass model.

 

[Bartman]

it's good news! that overspray is really hard to remove. if you catch it right away it will come off with isopropyl alcohol.

white glue? you're screwed.

 

[Bob Turner]

So if Avgas removes overspray, what keeps it from softening your finish?

I got it all out with heat.

Way off topic, so forgive me - 1939 model locomotive - builder filled the boiler with white glue and lead shot. Heated it up, scraped it out. Now it is time to get off the couch and drill the radio switch panel for the J3.

 

[Hiperbiper]

Please be careful using gas to wash stuff. I've been on fire twice in my life; once in a dragster that kept trying to kill me and the other was washing engine parts. A guy standing 10-15 feet away from me lit his pipe and next thing I know everything around me is alight.
There are better options for cleaning trust me. Burns hurt.
Chris

 

[Bartman]

So if Avgas removes overspray, what keeps it from softening your finish?

I got it all out with heat.

Way off topic, so forgive me - 1939 model locomotive - builder filled the boiler with white glue and lead shot. Heated it up, scraped it out. Now it is time to get off the couch and drill the radio switch panel for the J3.

to be honest, i forget which layer was the worst for overspray, it might have been the EkoPrime. One of them was a little bugger. The poly top coat wasn't that bad as far as getting into things but the vapors settled on anything that wasn't vertical and left everything tinted red.

The top coat with full film thickness is impervious to avgas and mogas. When mogas gets at the fabric from underneath, like when a fuel tank leaks, that's when there are problems. Avgas doesn't have that effect.