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| posted on February 5th, 2017 at 02:25 PM |
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How to Remove Carpet Glue Easily
I'm not sure if this has already been "discovered" or not, but I add it here in case someone hasn't heard of it.
I'm a chemist in my spare time and I have stumbled across this accidentally and on the first occasion thought it was just some bad glue. But it has
happened twice now over a couple of years to two different cars.
The secret? Spray the glued area with Mr Muscle Oven Cleaner and leave for a couple of days to do the magic. I never bothered to monitor it the first
time so I don't know if the reaction happened within a few days or longer. I'm not sure if it was within hours, but I will try again at a later date
to see the optimum contact time.
I sprayed some on the firewall and front quarter panel of my beetle a fair while ago and only lifted the cover off it today to do some more work,
The glue gets affected by the caustic ingredients and becomes soft and flaky and looks like dried skin you get after a really bad case of sunburn and
the subsequent peeling.
The photo attached shows a small area I peeled off in about 10 seconds using nothing more than my fingers. A piece of the skin (the brown stuff) is
lying at the bottom of the photo. Some areas would need a soft scraper to help. The black bituminous area was also affected and came off too albeit
with a bit of scraping with a plastic scraper.
On both my cars, the 50 year old paint underneath was TOTALLY unaffected by the oven cleaner and looked like it had just been applied. But you need to
make your own mind up on the suitability of the paint you have underneath the carpet. I guess if your alternative is to use solvents and hard
scrapers, I guess the paint will suffer some serious trauma anyway.
Remember the oven cleaner is caustic and will burn your skin and severely damage your eyes. Make sure you wear goggles when applying the
spray.
Let me know if it works for you too. Remember this is not something you do quickly and won't help if your car needs to be to the paint shop in a
couple of days. This is a job that can be done well in advance and really does not involve too much hard work.
viiking
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| posted on February 5th, 2017 at 04:11 PM |
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ABS edge cleaner is also good.... From a kitchen maker / joiner / cabinetmaker
Step up to get out !!!
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| posted on February 5th, 2017 at 05:07 PM |
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Someone also used oven cleaner to take a splitty back to its original paint
worked a treat
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| posted on February 6th, 2017 at 11:47 AM |
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Hot tanking and use of caustic soda or other alkalis for paint removal has been around for years.
However I did not expect the oven cleaner to work on glue like it did.
Hence the surprise.
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| posted on February 6th, 2017 at 05:00 PM |
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found the post - check it out
https://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=98775&page=2
Futue te ipsum!!!
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| posted on February 7th, 2017 at 08:50 AM |
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OK. Thanks for that. Wasn't claiming that I was the first but indeed I discovered the same thing independently.
I did do a search for removing the glue and only came up with the solvent method.
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| posted on March 19th, 2017 at 03:36 PM |
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Hi Viiking,
Thanks for the information, regarding oven cleaner's ability to remove glue and not the car's paint.
I used a product called Goop Off! The glue was removed with a lot of wiping & scraping, unfortunately the original grey primer is showing in a few
spots on the firewall.
However, losing original paint is not the end of the world. New carpet and a rubber mat will be installed.
Bryce
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| posted on March 20th, 2017 at 06:23 AM |
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I used Presol and a lot of Elbow grease took a while but got it off
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