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My buddy's son recently "grew out of lego" so He gave all his lego to me. :grin:

He was very into star wars so he had many episode 3 sets.

Sadly he took it too himself to customize clones with sharpie :cry_sad:

So I was wondering how to remove sharpie without removing lego decals and paint.

Please help me out!

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I'm not sure about sharpie brand specifically, but sometimes writing over marker in expo marker and then wiping it off will remove the original marker.

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Aren't some sharpie markers a thing called PERMINANT that means that it may never come off well it depends wether he used a washable or a permanant one , so you could be screwed my friend

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Aren't some sharpie markers a thing called PERMINANT

Actually it's called p-e-r-m-a-n-e-n-t , and they are advertised as such. However, there are still solvents in other products that can often remove it. A bit of searching revealed that there is actually some basis for my experience with EXPO markers. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpie_(marker)#Erasing

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Alcohol based products work wonders. I think I even managed to use some sort of common household alcohol based spray (scented bodyspray, not deoderant.) one squirt and all the ink came of leaving a shiny minifig :classic:

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With just a little bit of brasso everything comes off.

Not in my experience. I just put a small dab on a tissue, then rub the minifig peice until the sharpie begins to come off, then use a clean part of the tissue and remove the rest of the sharpie and brasso.

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Alcohol based products work wonders. I think I even managed to use some sort of common household alcohol based spray (scented bodyspray, not deoderant.) one squirt and all the ink came of leaving a shiny minifig :classic:

Holy cow! That one also works well. I tried it on a clone helmet and bam! Thanks.

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Glad to be of help :classic: .

I think I read somewhere that alcohol based things kill each other and when I messed up a custom head I was trying to draw the first thing I found was some body spray. I was most pleased when it worked. When my brothers and their friends grew out of stealing all my best Lego parts I used it to get rid of all the initials I wrote on them to prevent said stealing.

Plus body spray is cheaper than brasso or rubbing alcohol because I can buy it for like 50p (about a dollar for those across the pond) a can in the supermarket.

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They were free anyway. One of my friends gave me a clone with a red line on him and i came off with rubbing alcohol

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Rubbing definitely. You can practically remove anything with the stuff, but yes, once I accidentally sharpied on a piece or...4 and removed it instantly with a bit of that.

I yellowed a CW Anikan's head for awile and it came off with rubbing acohol, but not where one of my friends kids found him on a table and left chew marks on his head! :cry_sad::sad: The yellow was stuck in the indents. Rubbing acohol doesn't remove printing !

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I yellowed a CW Anikan's head for awile and it came off with rubbing acohol, but not where one of my friends kids found him on a table and left chew marks on his head! :cry_sad::sad: The yellow was stuck in the indents. Rubbing acohol doesn't remove printing !

Wherever there's a niche or small dent mark, the color doesn't go away sadly, so my C3-PO head has a half-dark mouth and pupils! :cry_sad:

I also tend to lock my Minifigs away, far from anybody's mouth. :tongue:

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Nail Polish Remover! Yea. that's right. lol, I printed over King Kahuka's torso a while back, and maybe 1-2 years later I removed it with the nail polish remover, Still a bit here and there, but that's because I didn't bother to get rid of all of it. just don't rub Really Really Hard, I did that and i saw bits coming off, I rubbed a bit softer after that. :) Hope this helps. and brasso.. never used it. hopefully never will... lol then on the back, I used a sharp knife and scraped away the left over.

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Wherever there's a niche or small dent mark, the color doesn't go away sadly, so my C3-PO head has a half-dark mouth and pupils! :cry_sad:

I also tend to lock my Minifigs away, far from anybody's mouth. :tongue:

I was building it and they just poped it the door. They knocked of course! :tongue: And poor, poor 3PO! :pir_bawling: Since is head has no printing, why not let it soak in rubbing acohol. How much worse can it get?

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Nail Polish Remover! Yea. that's right. lol, I printed over King Kahuka's torso a while back, and maybe 1-2 years later I removed it with the nail polish remover, Still a bit here and there, but that's because I didn't bother to get rid of all of it. just don't rub Really Really Hard, I did that and i saw bits coming off, I rubbed a bit softer after that. :) Hope this helps. and brasso.. never used it. hopefully never will... lol then on the back, I used a sharp knife and scraped away the left over.

I concur my Partners Nail polish remover found its way into my lego toolkit.

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Possible Solutions:

1. Brasso

2. Rubbing Alcohol

3. Graphite Pencil Eraser

Warning though, those all damage the original printing (if not completely remove it :laugh: )

I have only used alcohol once, however that damaged the actual plastic badly

I am not too sure about removing it w/o damaging the original printing

Hope this helps :sweet:

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Possible Solutions:

1. Brasso

2. Rubbing Alcohol

3. Graphite Pencil Eraser

.......

I am not too sure about removing it w/o damaging the original printing

I have not tried any of those yet, though I have used Brasso to remove torso printing, and it worked really good.

As far as not damaging the plastic or the print though, it is easy.

Just take a can of AXE Bodyspray, squirt a few drops on the part, 'roll' it around, and wipe it all off.

It works, and leaves your Lego brick smelling fresh! :grin:

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I have not tried any of those yet, though I have used Brasso to remove torso printing, and it worked really good.

As far as not damaging the plastic or the print though, it is easy.

Just take a can of AXE Bodyspray, squirt a few drops on the part, 'roll' it around, and wipe it all off.

It works, and leaves your Lego brick smelling fresh! :grin:

How about no. AXE smells terrible. Besides, cologne works better, more alcohol

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