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MBX Model Paint Stripper - or Bath Soap
Topic Started: Dec 27 2014, 07:14 PM (1,419 Views)
Douglas
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I know something about my Faith, and I have a good grip on how to do my job, I even know a bit about diecast toy cars, but would you think I'd have known better than to pack bar soap in a box of diecast and place it in a hot humid shed in Florida. :duh:

Well that was about 15 years ago, and discovered the mess about 12 years ago, and I guess I just wasn't thinking, but fortunately I had it in a separate bag, and the bubble part of the blister package was facing down to keep the now liquid contents from making a big mess of the other cars.

This is another one of those unusual products branded as Mbx that I like to collect. I believe they were available in about 1997 or 98. They also had shampoo, and possibly one other bath product as I recall. I only remember them at WM, but they may have been available elsewhere.

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The paint from the model was now just particles floating around in the slimy goo that was once soap. The worst part was that they didn't even include a real Matchbox model, just some off brand casting. I guess the only thing Matchbox about any of this product was the name on the package. Don't ask why I hang on to such things as this.
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juantoo3
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By the wheels I'd guess Summer. Kinda makes you wonder if bath soap can peel paint, do you *really* want to use it on your body?
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cody6268
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Oops!

I've made that mistake once. I put a bunch of my stuff after I grew out of playing with it, but hadn't started collecting yet in a leaky outbuilding that I used to play in. I took the diecast (and a few plastic ones as well) out this summer, only to find the chrome had stripped off on many of them, some of them were from as late as 2007 or '08.
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fucumi
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That's hilarious Doug! Hard to believe that combo but there it is.
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toyotageek
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I'm a little slow sometimes. Took me a while to realize the car was in a bar of soap (I was thinking there was soap in the blister, along with the car), and said soap from your example had liquified.... I tried searching for some images of what it should have looked like, but can't find any. I wonder if anyone actually has one - maybe froze it for the future?
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gandrews
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By reading the back of the package and where it is made I would have to agree that the only thing Matchbox about this is the logo on the package.

I mean really! They put a caution on the back of the package regarding getting soap in your eyes. You'd think they could put a caution on there regarding storing the package in a hot shed for 12 years. I mean come on people!
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Douglas
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It is kind of an odd product combination, I wonder if any kids got all scratched up when the soap dissolved enough to expose the toy against their skin. It might not have lasted that long though, had I been a kid I probably would have run the soap under hot water for long periods to quicken the process and get the car. :D It's probably pretty rare to find the car still in the bar of soap.

Greg, I like the 1,2,3 steps on how to use soap.

Cody, I remember reading something one time, it seems there was some household chemical that would dissolve chrome on plastic, I think it may have been chlorine fumes, can't remember for sure, but Jim (fucumi) would probably know, he does a lot of model car customs.

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Sirentoys
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Chlorine bleach will remove chrome. It is an old modelers trick.

Ford Ambulance with this method used to take the chrome off the base and wheels.

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David Tilley
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Thanks for showing this. I have seen these in the past (in pictures). I had often wondered what was actually inside the soap. A part of me thought it was the Porsche 959, and as such I was almost tempted to buy one to see. I am glad I didn't. I would have been really disappointed to tear apart all the soap only to find a non-descript model in the middle.

I think this is probably the first time we have had a proper look inside one of those soaps.
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78Gremlin_GT
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Wow, that brought back some memories! I think I actually REMEMBER that commercial from way back when! (showing how old I am, maybe?). I don't believe I ever got that car, but thought it was an interesting way to get boys to get cleaner more enthusiastically. LOL! I'd bet that was a fairly good Fail promotion of the time. heh heh!

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ivantt
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
Sirentoys
Dec 31 2014, 09:40 AM
Chlorine bleach will remove chrome. It is an old modelers trick.

Ford Ambulance with this method used to take the chrome off the base and wheels.

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Jeff
Ah, a flashback to some of my old model building years, especially parts on a plastic "tree" that you didn't want to be chrome, like engine blocks and their transmissions.
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SeberHusky
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I found banana sunscreen in an abandoned minivan in the desert on my aunt's farm. It had been out there about 15 years. The plastic of the bottle was crumbling, and the sunscreen came out gray. It was like super glue when i rubed a little bit of it on my skin.

I also discovered the makeshift chrome stripper. One of my early diecast lots I bought came from a drug addict and they smelled horrible. Disgusting. I put them in like, baking soda, some Febreze, carpet cleaning powder, and soap. Sealed the container of the coated cars in that for a week, and when I washed them off, all the chrome paint went down the drain and they were totally devoid of anything that was chrome painted.
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