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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ledded" data-source="post: 2056076" data-attributes="member: 12744">Um, buddy, maybe I should have did a smiley or something, but I was *kidding*. Xylene is very bad, and it's reasonably easy to figure out even for the layman because it fricken' says so on the bottle. Plus a quick google will tell you that also. Sorry, I assumed our usual audience was old enough to read <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. But you are totally correct, it's nasty stuff.  Oh, it's some poweful nasty stuff. It might do something nasty to, say, a plastic fig like Games Workshop makes, but I left some MK and Heroclix in goof-off for days and while it softened them up a little, it did not have any permanent effect whatsoever (besides totally obliterating the paint). After removal and several good washings they were like new in a couple days (except, well, for the paint, which was gone). I'm sure certain plastics could be crazed or melted by this stuff.  And for the record, I wear nitrile or other appropriate gloves, a mask, and a decent pair of safety goggles (not just glasses) any time I work with dangerous stuff, including cutting/sanding old lead minis and sanding resin, using chemicals (well, except beer and coffee), etc, which is what I consider "normal safety measures", i.e. the stuff you are often told to do when dealing with dangerous stuff.  I mean, you're crazy if you don't. Especially chemicals like xylene, thinners, etc, because if you use a toothbrush on the minis like I did to remove the paint after soaking, you can sling small particles that would probably be *bad* to get in your eye (another reason why goggles/full-coverage glasses are better IMO than just glasses... stuff can get around glasses sometimes). So really, I kid sometimes, but be careful kids.</blockquote>

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