Maintenance How to remove 401 Locktite glue?

Have you tried using freezing or soaking in warm water to loosen up the glue already? If the head has a faceup you like on in granted, those may not be the best ideas, depending on which side the magnet is on.

 

Yeah, removing the glue is quite a process. I've managed to remove the actual magnets, but haven't tried the glue itself. Maybe try soaking it in some nail polish removed and scraping the top of residue off? Assuming it softens. You can use cotton swabs for a more careful application and worse comes to worse, any damage within the magnet hole won't be visible once you put the magnets back in

 

I've removed super glue before with Windsor and Newton brush cleaner, which is what you can normally use to remove Faceups. It's just a bit of work and patience.

 

Have you tried superglue remover?

Teddy

 

I never glue anything without the remover within reach. It's come in handy a time or two - one time a bride came to collect her wedding dress and I accidentally superglued her foot to the floor of my sewing room.... Superglue Remover to the rescue!

Teddy

 

Removing the magnet itself is also quite an adventure I had to go through a couple of weeks ago. For me it was a combination of acetone (brush cleaner didn't seem strong enough, as the magnet was fit pretty tightly), freezing, "cooking" the head cap in boiling water, and pulling the magnet out with another one. It was either boiling or the combination of everything that did the trick. No damage from the hot water either, but the resin becomes a bit softer. So, be careful when pulling

 

Looks like the acetone & super glue remover suggestions are best for the spot where the magnet has already come loose.
And the hot & cold tips for removing the other magnet if need be...good thing it isn't the mechanical use red loctite as the instructions for removing it are more extreme!
Leave no traces: How to remove glue from most surfaces

 

A drop or two of acetone and a few minutes wait, sometimes with a little scraping or dental-picking, will dissolve almost any cyanoacrylate "super" glue, like loctite or Krazy glue.

 

Happy to help! Just don't get the acetone on any faceup or blushing- it'll strip it right off! Wash it off the resin once you're done, and you'll be fine.

 

I'd try never to use colored nail polish remover. You guessed it- Clear is safest, because people have stained dolls in the past with the dyed stuff.