We all know I love my L.A.’s Totally Awesome.
Today I’m using it to deflock Wind Whistler and Crumpet, using full concentrate in my little slow cooker which I bought specifically for this purpose.
I do this in my basement bathroom which no one uses, with the fan on, and wearing a vapor-rated mask.
I have seen people use Oxy Clean and hot water, but did you know the flocking will fall off with just hot water?
I’m using hot cleanser which not only loosens the glue enough to let the flocking come off easily, but also dissolves the glue a bit.
There’s still a lot of scraping, rubbing, scrubbing, rubbing, scraping, more rubbing....
I find that rubbing with the grip nubs on my kitchen gloves rolls up most of the glue that’s left after the initial scraping.
But the reason I like using T.A. for deflocking so much is that, even kept hot in a slow cooker, it doesn’t affect the G1 MLP paint. I can’t say about other generations, it’s not like I’ve ever had to deflock anything other than G1.
That makes it so much easier to get the flocking and glue off around the eyes and cutie marks than trying to be careful with acetone.
There will likely be areas that I need to touch up with acetone here and there.
