Removing stripes/decals ect

[Albannach]

rob
why didnt you come and ask me , i remove stickers all the time when i do paintwork

got the stuff thatll work a treat

Is it secret stuff?

[Albannach]

Hot air guns get seriously hot though. That would damage the paint would it not? The toffee wheel just sort of grabs the sticker little by little and polishes it off.

Have a look at a phenomenon called 'friction'.

[blackpoolsparks]

I attempted to remove my Surf sticker with a caramel wheel, ended up with a respray as I also managed to remove the laquer finish.
You decide which is best

[zetec rob]

I attempted to remove my Surf sticker with a caramel wheel, ended up with a respray as I also managed to remove the laquer finish.
You decide which is best

Yeah i have my doubts but it does say use a very very slow drill, what speed did you have yours at?

[red october]

Hot air guns get seriously hot though. That would damage the paint would it not? The toffee wheel just sort of grabs the sticker little by little and polishes it off.

thats why i said use the hot air gun carefully, when a car or van is "wrapped" the vinyl that is contoured into a recess or gulley has to have a secondary heat to get it to stay in there, most vinyl manufacturers recomend 90 degrees C ! so believe me the paint can take it, probably not any plastic trim though lol. just use them with care & dotn allow window lickers to help !

[JUDWAK]

hot kettle a bit of time lots of shouting fek and things
loads more kettles of water and jobs a good en

just dont get the hot water on the door handings has they turn white

[puddlesurfer]

hot kettle a bit of time lots of shouting fek and things
loads more kettles of water and jobs a good en

just dont get the hot water on the door handings has they turn white

Or near any glass

[JUDWAK]

i used a wall paper stripper too i had to slice a rubber pipe and use it has a buffer on the steamer end
it was some add pipeing off the surf (i have new)
it worked a treat but the kettle was better

[JUDWAK]

mine did have surf in big letters down the doors and it said
urban off roading on the back with a silly stripe
fek knows how you get an urban off roader souded fekin gay to me
surf down the doors a porn tash and quiff something had to go
tiz all to gay
so i took the stickers off and kept the tash and quiff

look theres no marks to say were they have been
t cut afer too

[blackpoolsparks]

Yeah i have my doubts but it does say use a very very slow drill, what speed did you have yours at?

have you got a variable speed drill with RPM settings??
I dont know, it seemed slow enough to me.

I have in the past used a hot air gun to take the stickers off another Surf. This went very well as the whole sticker came off in about 4 to 5 pieces.
The other I'm referring to here, came off in 10mm pieces, so was doing my head in.
After I burnt through the lacquer I left the rest for the body shop to do, they were cursing me as they had the same issue.

[zetec rob]

have you got a variable speed drill with RPM settings??

Now that's just silly lol, what i meant was if your drill had 4-5 speed settings which one did you have it on or was it a 2 speed drill, that's why i was asking so i could get an idea of what speed your drill was set at to cause that damage, mainly to make sure i don't do the same lol

[blackpoolsparks]

Now that's just silly lol, what i meant was if your drill had 4-5 speed settings which one did you have it on or was it a 2 speed drill, that's why i was asking so i could get an idea of what speed your drill was set at to cause that damage, mainly to make sure i don't do the same lol

Less to do with the speed and more to do with my heavy hand and the amount of time I left the wheel sit in one place whilst it was spinning.

BTW, the drill was a two speed Makita cordless

[zetec rob]

Less to do with the speed and more to do with my heavy hand and the amount of time I left the wheel sit in one place whilst it was spinning.

BTW, the drill was a two speed Makita cordless

Ah ok thanks mate, being heavy handed is a prob i suffer from as well lol

[Maverick]

I attempted to remove my Surf sticker with a caramel wheel, ended up with a respray as I also managed to remove the laquer finish.
You decide which is best

How on earth did you manage that.
I used a caramel wheel over the course of a nightshift, in semi darkness, and didn't leave a mark.

[zetec rob]

How on earth did you manage that.
I used a caramel wheel over the course of a nightshift, in semi darkness, and didn't leave a mark.

I've got a feeling the 2 speed drill wasn't slow enough.