cleaning unfinished fiberglass

[jimgreen]

I didn't seal the fiberglass on the inside of my wheel covers and now realise what a hard job it will be to clean it up for finishing, having flown for a year or so.
Has anyone got good method of doing this?

[tfarrell839]

That is quite difficult. We use a combination of steam and engine degreaser (being careful with the paint) and sanding away the saturated stuff when we need to repair a wheel pant. It's never fun. I'll be curious to see what others do.

[ronschreck]

I remember using K2r spot remover to draw castor oil out of model airplane parts. I still use the stuff to pull oil out of fiberglass. It works great!

http://www.acehardware.com/product/i...LAID=345904082

[gear1]

If you can find it, regular dry cleaning fluid (perchlorethyline) works great, and does not damage paint or fiberglass.

[jimgreen]

Good ideas, I'll give it a go. The K2r is probably easiest to get hold of.