Removing Stihl Forestry Marker Paint from a Machine

[IronMike]

Around 30k for a brand new one. Secondhand ones are very rare! The fella who makes them has not long churned out his 50th machine so they’re still in their infancy really. My machine is number 27 👍🏼

[Khriss]

1 hour ago, IronMike said:

Title sums it up really! 
 

So I had a comedic episode towards back end of last year, involving a punctured Stihl marker paint can in the roof box of my Logbullet. Unfortunately it got rattled about a bit too much and sprung a leak. Obviously being pressured the can promptly spewed its contents all over the machine and my chainsaw. I’ve got most off the saw, but machine is proving a little trickier. 
 

Been having fun removing it, by fun I mean frustration. Used a splash of Aspen on a rag which moved a lot but it’s hellish slow going. I need to get the marker paint off but not the paint on the panels! Any top tips for making it vanish quickly? Or am I just going to have to accept it’s gonna take a while and a good wedge of elbow grease. Wouldn’t have been quite so bad if the orange colours matched! 😆 

Got a Roumanian crew down here who will have it gleaming in half hour  😆  K

[slack ma girdle]

Title sums it up really! 
 
So I had a comedic episode towards back end of last year, involving a punctured Stihl marker paint can in the roof box of my Logbullet. Unfortunately it got rattled about a bit too much and sprung a leak. Obviously being pressured the can promptly spewed its contents all over the machine and my chainsaw. I’ve got most off the saw, but machine is proving a little trickier. 
 
Been having fun removing it, by fun I mean frustration. Used a splash of Aspen on a rag which moved a lot but it’s hellish slow going. I need to get the marker paint off but not the paint on the panels! Any top tips for making it vanish quickly? Or am I just going to have to accept it’s gonna take a while and a good wedge of elbow grease. Wouldn’t have been quite so bad if the orange colours matched! [emoji38] 

Leave it on, and put it down to life's patina. It will make an interesting talking point.

[Khriss]

In fact get it tagged up proper, be fab street cred rumbling thru Richmond saturday night. ( just leave it under arches Kilburn Tube,   in Town, be done in the morning 😋)  k

[Kevm]

You could try brake cleaner and if that doesn't work then try some standard paint thinners (the stuff used for cleaning spray guns) but just get some on a rag and give it a rub with that, you obviously need to be careful and if it looks like the original paint is coming off then give up.

The original paint should be a fairly tough two pack so should not come off easy.

[woody paul]

This stuff biodegrades so just speed it up with some uv light and water. 

[Moose McAlpine]

2 hours ago, woody paul said:

This stuff biodegrades so just speed it up with some uv light and water. 

 

The UV will also affect the paint on the machine and the plastics on the saw.