Originally Posted by
ilikebikes
Acetone, it turned this:into this:without harming anything! orig paint is fine as are the orig decals>
The orig paint was already chipped and scratched underneath the rattle can paint job, but orig is orig, no matter what.
I wouldn't really know, but it's possible that the old paint was enamel and the topcoat was lacquer. Enamel plasticizes in addition to hardening by solvent evaporation whereas lacquer hardens purely by solvent evaporation, implying that it is more susceptible to solvents. I suspect that enamel would not have come off or if it had, it would have only come off with the base coat. Just a guess.