Freak back- how to strip paint without harming jewels?

[The Inflicted]

I've got a Freak back here I've acquired with a spraypaint "camo" paintjob.
There's plenty of things in my garage that I know can strip the paint off without harming the anno, but I'd like, if possible, to not dissolve or fog up the "Freak" logo jewels in the piece.
Is there a solvent that will attack the paint without harming the jewels and if not, what's a good way of protecting/masking the parts while the paint is stripped?

[Grendel]

Don't leave the Jewel in place. The easiest way to clean this up is to warm up the freak back and carefully remove the jewel sticker then clean up the paint on the anodized freak back. You should be able to remove the paint from the jewel logo with alcohol and some light rubbing. Once everything is cleaned up reattach the jewel using fresh double sided adhesive film.

[iamthelazerviking]

Peel it off. Glue it back on.

[The Inflicted]

Don't leave the Jewel in place. The easiest way to clean this up is to warm up the freak back and carefully remove the jewel sticker then clean up the paint on the anodized freak back. You should be able to remove the paint from the jewel logo with alcohol and some light rubbing. Once everything is cleaned up reattach the jewel using fresh double sided adhesive film.

Right now the jewels aren't moving when I try to pry them with a dental pick.

How muich heat would be appropriate here? I don't have a heat gun so I'm looking at the hairdryer, boiling water, or a blowtorch. Guessing the blowtorch is out.

[Grendel]

Hair Dryer heat and heat up the aluminum not the Jewel if you can to keep from making the actual bubble soft. Oh and blow torches are always an option just not something that is often recoverable

[Sdawg]

Try using some 91% isopropyl alcohol to dissolve the adhesive. You can use E6000 glue when it is time to reinstall.

[Toestr]

Can you just scrape off the paint with a toothpick or something?

[wthomas333]

I’ve used a hairdryer before. It loosened it up enough to get it started.

I have reattached quite a few using the Gorilla Glue double sided super glue tape. It works well. Who know, maybe too well, I haven’t had to remove one yet after using it.

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[Grendel]

Yup, hair dryer is the way, heat guns can get way too hot too quickly. I heat them from the inside of the barrel so the aluminum conducts the heat to the adhesive on the Jewel sticker from below not through the bubble. Alcohol should work as well on the adhesive but it takes a while to soak into the middle.

[The Inflicted]

A combination of hot water and alcohol got it done.

A splash of acetone in a small baggie took care of the old paint.

Thanks, everybody!

[Sdawg]

The acetone didn't damage the anodizing?

[SR_matt]

Why would it? Anno is pretty resilient. I would think the only way acetone could hurt anno is if it was really bad quality and not sealed properly.

[Paintslinger16]

Try fishing line or dental floss to get behind and saw through glue

well next time lol

[The Inflicted]

The acetone didn't damage the anodizing?

It did not.

That Freak back was already kind of a dark purple black compared to the other parts of that Dragun, though the sunlight in the picture accentuates it more than normal.