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How do you get dirt off the glue side of vinyl – help please
This arvo, while wrapping a van, accidentally brushed the vinyl against the tyre, and picked up some grains of crumbly dirt over a few square inches area on the glue side of 3M IJ380. 🙄
I am sure everyone has done it at least once!
Has anyone come up with a satisfactory way of cleaning this off? I tried pressing masking tape against the glue to pull it off, and I have pulled off the big bits with tweezers. But whatever is left wont budge and will show through and look terrible.
Ideas?
Simon
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4 Replies
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Simon
can’t help with the grit, but tip for you is wrap your wheel with backing paper silicone side out before wrapping it saves these problemsKev
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Try spraying it with water and gently scraping it away.
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Agree with the above. We do all our mounting in what is actually an office space with 2 little chihuahua’s running around, so little hairs are a problem when exposing adhesive… we usually just wet our finger and dab any particles off. The adhesive can go ‘milky’ depending on how wet you make it, but as long as it’s not clear vinyl then that should be absolutely fine.
Hope that helps!
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Thanks for suggestions.
What I did was, hang it vertically, and with a spray bottle full of water and a few drops detergent I sprayed with some force at the dirt and it ran down and off onto the floor. I then left it to dry. This got almost all of itNice idea Kev. I will do that with my next wrap.
Simon
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