Monday, 17 October 2011

Chuckin' Checkers !

Next, I thought I would tackle the checkers, the lettering was fairly easy, the odd bits of glue that it left, I managed to remove with some WD40 on a cloth for the most part. Some bits were stubborn though.

Started on the passenger side wing, seemed as good as place as any, and happened to be where I was stood when I thought "I know I'll start taking that off" :P.

Oh dear, heated it up with the hot air gun, peeled the plastic away, and it left 100% of the glue still on the wing. So much so it looked like backing paper.





So rather than carry on and leave exposed glue all over the van to catch flies and bugs and anything else that might be travelling in the air, I decided to try removing the glue on this patch first. I had been pre warned of the difficulty in this part of the job, and was reliably informed nail varnish remover was the answer. If only. Nail varnish remover didn't touch it. Neither did the WD40. Nor the tar and bug remover that the sign specialist advised. One thing that did make it a little easier to remove was petrol. But after I'd done a couple of square INCHES, the fumes were making me sick, so had to stop. I stank of petrol for hours after that too. So wasn't a feasible solution.

This is where the checker removal stopped. The front wing left with the shape of the checkers in glue.

Time to do some more research I think. YouTube is a good source of info for this kind of thing, there is a guy in America that has some magic stuff that he sprays on, leaves a few seconds then wipes easily away with paper towel, he so hasn't got my van with 10 year old checkers on that's for sure. If only it was that easy !

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