Date:         Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:35:10 -0700
Reply-To:     Alistair Bell <albell@UVIC.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Alistair Bell <albell@UVIC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Solvent / Chemical Guru needed - Sikaflex-227 removal
Comments: To: David Marshall <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG>
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polyurethane is the beast, pretty well impossible to dissolve when
cured (now fellow listmemebers, don't be clever and suggest some
unusable solvent). You'll have to pry/cut it off.

Its great stuff. I love it. The glue and the remedy.

When uncured, get it off your fingers with 95% ethanol, then lick
fingers :)

PL Premium is the landlubbers inferior equivalent, not quite as good
but a whole lot cheaper.

Alistair

'82 westy, diesel converted to gas in '94

http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/

On 13-Sep-04, at 9:15 PM, David Marshall wrote:

> Volks,
> I have been using a compound called Sikaflex-227 to securely (I mean
> *really* securely) hold licence plates to the nose of my van so that
> they
> don't get knocked or damaged off when I am off-roading.  See
> http://www.fastforward.ca/pl8.jpg for an example of this.
>
> Anyhow, I sold one of my vehicles and I have to get the licence plate
> off
> before the handover on Friday.  Any idea what to use to get this off
> without
> damaging my plate ($100 replacement cost) or the vehicle?  The
> compound is
> rubbery (tire rubber soft) grey/white and it can be cut with a sharp
> knife.
> I used only four small dime sized dots at each corner of the plate.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> David Marshall