If wing walk is still there, use a heat gun and get a corner started then heat just ahead of the peeling line as you pull with a steady force. Only heat at and 1-2" ahead of the peel line to focus heat where needed and not over heat the underlying wing. Peeling cold is a risk to pulling paint up in the process.
If the wing walk is all gone, then I use a mix of 75/25 mineral spirits/naptha (coleman fuel) place two sheets of non-correlated paper towels on the area, wet with a squirt bottle, like an old diner ketsup server, and cover the whole area with aluminum foil.
Test a 4X4" area first to see how long it will take, but leave it up to an hour for stubborn adhesive.
Then take off the foil, set aside the first towel, and use the lower one to get the slimy goop off, pitch it immediately and switch to the clean second sheet to get any residual and all the scum left. It evaporates fast but you will have a few minutes to do both sheets. Repeat as needed for the remaining areas.
You can do the melting stage all at once, but for the removal maybe a half towel at a time, so plan ahead. Once melted, then foil is removed the clock is ticking for evaporation to reverse the melting process.
As in all things, take some care as you proceed to learn in steps.
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Bill
RV-7
Lord Kelvin:
“I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about,
and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you
cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge
is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.”
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