Date:         Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:22:29 -0400
Reply-To:     Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: removing the stripe
Comments: To: Aimee MacLeod <emeraldcityrealty@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <2D9FFD86-B605-416D-9844-BFD294B480FA@gmail.com>
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i swear by goo be gone followed up by a nice wash and wax.

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:18, Aimee MacLeod
<emeraldcityrealty@gmail.com> wrote:
> To remove decals a good method us to heat it up with a heat gun or
> hair dryer. Any remaining adhesive ( if any) can be removed with
> adhesive remover. There are citrus natural earth friendly kinds thy
> work great and smell great  or goo be gone would work too.  But often
> after heating the decal as you go it just peels right off magically. I
> usedto work doing vehicle graphics and this is how we worked on decal
> removal.
>
> Aimee in Olympia
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 18, 2010, at 4:55 AM, Raymond Paquette
> <raymondpaquette@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Anybody have ideas about how to remove the reflective stripe that goes
>> around the vanagon (or at least around mine)? I want to paint, so it
>> has
>> to go. On mine, and on the one in the picture, it is the grey stripe
>> just below the windows, right through the door handles.
>>
>> http://www.vanagon.com/static/img/old/media/syncro/img/syncro_brochure_1.jpg
>>
>> I'm hoping there's a better way than sandblasting or scraping, as I
>> hadn't intended on going to bare metal on most of it.
>>
>> Raymond
>