advice on removing adhesive residue?

[Gavin MacMillan]

Rapid Tac glue remover is the best one I’ve found

[Hugh Potter]

what surface Jeff?

glass is simply soapy water and a razor scraper,

other surfaces, well, I’ve used thinners (with caution and good venitlation!), rapid tac remover -v good but not cheap. various other tar and glue,

fumes is the biggest prob with many things i’ve tried, even outside!

hope the move and past year has gone well mate.

Hugh

[Bob Clarkson]

Don’t know if anyone is going to make an effort to locate this stuff, but I was given a bottle of adhesive remover once. All I know is, it was a VAG product and it smelt of oranges. Thing is, it seemed to just make the glue left on vehicles literally disappear as oppose to the effect of thinners or petrol etc.

As I don’t remove vinyls to any extent, I’ve never bothered too hard trying to find more. If you can find any, it is amazing.

[Jill Marie Welsh]

Sounds like Rapid Remover to me.
It works great.
It’s a bit greasy feeling so I would be careful around painted walls in an interior situation.
Works a million times better than Goo Gone.
Love….Jill

[Jeff_Brown]

Thanks guys.

I will order some up today, I can get the Rapid remove, or there is now a new no smell version.

Jeff

It has been an up and down year Hugh! How about you?

[Dan Osterbery]

careful where you use it, and defo no smoking, but we use petrol! works really well when followed with a plastic scraper! obviously you cant use it on some locations, but it works well!

[Jeff_Brown]

As I said, I Will be doing this in my studio, so not really a good idea to use petrol. 😮

[Bob Clarkson]

I put VAG adhesive remover in a web search, and got some pretty odd hits, if you do the same search, it is a genuine product, and not my slightly strange sense of humor.

I generally use petrol, it seems far cheaper and better than the so call right stuff. It was only this one product that impressed me. It smelt strongly of oranges and the adhesive did seem to actually disappear, to the extent it wasn’t even on my hands.

[Martin Pearson]

I use IPA for pretty much all my glue removal and substrate cleaning, only problem with glue is that it makes it really slimy and horrible. Only actual glue remover I have ever tried was the 3m stuff which was pretty good but very expensive.

[Jeff_Brown]

I have 2 11′ x 4′ panels I have to airbrush. So I have to get all the gunk off. And as they are so big and I am in my studio in the basement, petrol is a no go!

[Martin Manley]

I would soak them in White Spirit/Turps and leave them to soak for 5 minutes then scrape the resultant gloop off with a paint scraper or plastic squeegee. When the worst is off, finish with meths to completley clean the surface.
Martin

[Jeff_Brown]

All done… Very easy. But I stunk the place out! 😳

[Martin Pearson]

Jeff, you should have used IPA, you would never have noticed the smell because you would have been to high :lol1:

[Robert Lambie]

This one gets my vote… been using it for years now and tried loads.
find it the most cost effective too… you can by this in most good auto valet suppliers by the drum load. much cheaper and lasts for ages…

Dab apply with soaked cloth, or spray mist apply. leave it 5 minutes and apply again wiping off the adhesive.
if adhesive is very heavy, apply same as above. leave 5 minutes… appply again and using an old 4M gold squeegee or the like… scrape/drag the gunk off and wipe into paper towel and repeat. comes off very easily.
once glue is gone, using meths or isoprop to clean the panel down of any residue dried glue or tar and glue residue.

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[Hugh Potter]

quote Robert Lambie:

again and using an old 4M gold squeegee or the like… scrape/drag the gunk off and wipe into paper towel and repeat.

How come you’ve already got the 4M squeegee’s? i’ve still only got the 3M version…. show off! 🙁

Jeff, Much the same mate, up n down but, on the whole, better than last year – i think!

[Matty Goodwin]

Yeah I’m still on the 3m.. Can’t upgrade till March as on contract……

Matt 😀 😀

[Gwaredd Steele]

Losers.

I’ve got the iM squeegee from Apple. It cost a bomb & I had to queue up at midnight to get it, but it looks fab!

😉

[Matty Goodwin]

B@@@ard

(hot)

[Martin Pearson]

Gwaredd, the problem with the apple im squeegee is that it has a blunt egde very much like a felt squeegee, this is OK for graphics that don’t need application tape but for run of the mill application jobs you would be much better off with the apple air squeegee which has a much sharper edge like a regular squeegee.
Unfortunately I don’t think it comes in an "M" version at the moment.