This may not be an earth shattering tip for some buy it worked well for me so I thought I would pass it along. I have several good used park light/turn signal lenses from 65 Skylarks I have stripped from parts cars over the years. As you know they are back painted silver. I found it is a pain to try to remove the paint by sanding, or any other method. I happen to think that to remove paint from old model cars( yes, I still play with model cars at my age) I soak them in brake fluid for two or three days so I put an old broken lens in the stuff for three days. I took it out tonight and after draining the excess fluid off I wiped the old silver right off , no problem. You are left with a nice clear lens ready to wash in soapy water, dry, scuff up a little, mask off the part that need be and hit it with argent spray paint. Call me a tight wad but I can use that 100 plus bucks to buy other parts the car needs
Now on to the next of many projects!!
Mike(BuckeyeBuicks)