Disassembling a resin engine

[porschercr]

 I received a resin engine that was built. Is there a safe way to take it apart for ease of painting?

 

 

[Ace-Garageguy]

Resin engines are usually assembled with either CA or epoxy.

If it's CA, this thread on de-bonders will be of interest to you.  https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?534870-What-s-a-good-CA-debonder

If it's epoxy, which is highly solvent-resistant after it cures, there are really no chemical means to soften it.

If 5-minute epoxy was used, it has little real strength, and you can probably pry parts apart using an X-acto chisel blade as a wedge.

If it was assembled with a good grade of epoxy, you may be SOL.

Epoxies can sometimes be weakened with heat, but it might take SO MUCH heat that your resin parts would be damaged before the epoxy breaks down.

 

[porschercr]

Thank you.