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    #1

    Acetone, anyone?

    Hi Guys,

    From time to time people recommend the use of acetone to remove post-war paint, or as a test to check if a paint-job is post-war.

    Seems to me like dangerous ground...

    I imagine that original WW2 heat-hardened factory paintjobs can resist acetone pretty well, but what if use this chemical to check a field-applied camo job?

    Please enlighten me!
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    #2
    C'mon! Doesn't anyone have experience or an opinion?

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      #3
      Originally posted by AndersB
      C'mon! Doesn't anyone have experience or an opinion?
      Not much experience, but im wondering the same thing as you

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        #4
        Your experience(brain ) and your senses
        One minute to judge a camo helmet in the hands....

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          #5
          Originally posted by flashider
          Your experience(brain ) and your senses
          One minute to judge a camo helmet in the hands....
          Yeah, thats great for those who have all this experience compaired to us, "newbies" hehe, but you didnt give any answer the to real question here

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            #6
            i don't recommend to use acetone on camo and even on reissue helmets

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              #7
              The use of acetone...isn't an unfailing metod for me
              Use it only if you want remove a clearly post war paint
              Don't buy post war shells...

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                #8

                DONT TOUCH ANYTHING IF ITS GENUINE CAMO AND YOU REMOVE BITS YOUR HELMET GOES FROM HERO TO ZERO.
                SOMETHINGS ARE BEST LEFT AS THEY ARE

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                  #9
                  Be careful using Acetone!

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                    #10
                    Acetone is fine if your intention is to ruin a helmet.

                    Cody

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                      #11
                      Hi Anders, a vivid discussion came up on one of the other forums here not too long ago. The subject was a test, using alcohol, to test the authenticity of winter cammo helmets. I tried it on mine and rubbed the paint like hell. Of course it eventually came off in a small test spot. Fortunately a more experienced collector stepped in and said that this test works if you dab a small spot and the paint reacts. It did not, this saved a couple of helmets from the crusher. Use a q-tip on an inconspicuous spot and just use a little bit. Maybe the more experienced collectors have other ideas but the idea was that wartime paints did not have compounds in them that react with this test. Good luck and be cautious.

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                        #12
                        Hi Everybody I have used acetone on a helmet once. The helmet was given to my dad when he was a kid in 1945 and he passed it on to my bigbrothers who for some reason had it repainted and fixed with new decals
                        I have had it for years and one day last summer i decided to try to remove the paint, I used acetone and moste of the postwar paint came off.
                        There are still a little of the post war paint remaining but I decided to leave it, rather than remove the original paint. The helmet had 3 layers of postwar paint, before I got to the real thing. I showed it to my dad and he thought it was really cool to see his old helmet again, as he said he did not think he would ever see that again!

                        But if you use acetone be carefull, and remeber to be working in open air

                        The first picture is taken of the inside of the helmet, thats the paint it had before.
                        Next is the helmet, you still see remainings of the postwar paint

                        By the way this helmet, a gas mask a bayonet and a pouch for the K98 all stuff my farther got in 1945 got the whole collecting thing started for me

                        I still have the things

                        Cheers Lassi
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                            #14
                            I've used acetone to test helmets in an inconspicious place and found that fake post war paint runs like water. I've also cleaned off three or four painted helmets to find a really cool helmet beneath. However these were obvious repaints. Be careful before you try this -- in the open with rubber gloves and like the others said only if it is obvious that the helmet has been repainted.

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                              #15
                              And don't smoke at the same time
                              Looking for any original items related to Danish W-SS volunteers

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