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I just got some new goodies from Shapeways in the frosted ultra detail, and this batch has a thick coating of the slimy residue on them. I think it's been discussed before, but what's the best way to remove it?

I wish I had a good answer for you....I hate that crap. Write to Shapeways about it - they may give you a discount.

Just did a bunch of reading on the SW forum. The "goop" is support wax and it doesn't appear that anyone's found a good way to remove it. However, this was posted by a SW employee (in August of this year):


"Hi all,

Thank you very much for all these techniques!
Great to see a community working together to see what the best way is of getting rid of the support material / wax.

I do can tell you that we do not deliver any of those models with a lot of wax anymore!
If everything goes alright, you should get a wax free model.

Ohh btw, please smell your model! Smile smells much nicer now Smile

If not, please send an email to service@shapeways.com with a picture of your model, so we can complain at the printing department that they still delivered models with a lot of wax."

It seems that a putty oven and baby shampoo work well....

It's a rather long thread so I'll just give you the link instead of repeating - http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.ph ... goto=28535

I don't know what this "goop" is, but if you're looking for a natural solvent it's hard to go past eucalyptus oil. If you've got a cold at the time it'll fix that too....

excellent stuff. every time i pass a gum tree in the UK i pick a leaf and crush it so i can inhale the smell of home.

seriously, it is good, but test it on the plastic first ... .

In my childhood, when I was a little boy and had a sore throat, my old grandmother used eucalyptus to breathe and gargle.

But I never could imagine that somebody can use it for railway models

Citrisolv or Goo Gone?

Don't know about those two, someone will have to test them. Basically what's needed is something strong enough to remove a mix of wax and oil while not harming the actual object. Shapeways simply needs to do a better job.

I just figured that citrus based cleaners would give the same results as the eucalyptus oil...