Kyle Boatright
Well Known Member
I posted in an old thread a few days ago about my difficulty removing the residue left behind by 10 year old UHMW tape. Solvents, scraping, lots of gnashing of teeth, and no good solution was in sight.
Then I went by my local auto body supply shop and explained what I was trying to do. They handed me one of these and sent me on my way:
http://www.amazon.com/Eraser-Pad-Pi..._2?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1314142476&sr=1-2
It is a 4" diameter rubber eraser for removing pin stripes, stickers, etc from cars. You chuck it in an electric drill and the heat and shearing action from the spinning disk take adhesive and tape residue right off. Works like a dream and doesn't hurt the paint. In 30 minutes I cleaned up one flap to a point that it is ready for new protective tape.
One hint - do the hard to reach ends of the (still mounted) flap first - before you wear down the sharp edges of the disk. Those sharp edges allow you to get into fairly tight corners. And then they abrade away...
Then I went by my local auto body supply shop and explained what I was trying to do. They handed me one of these and sent me on my way:
http://www.amazon.com/Eraser-Pad-Pi..._2?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1314142476&sr=1-2
It is a 4" diameter rubber eraser for removing pin stripes, stickers, etc from cars. You chuck it in an electric drill and the heat and shearing action from the spinning disk take adhesive and tape residue right off. Works like a dream and doesn't hurt the paint. In 30 minutes I cleaned up one flap to a point that it is ready for new protective tape.
One hint - do the hard to reach ends of the (still mounted) flap first - before you wear down the sharp edges of the disk. Those sharp edges allow you to get into fairly tight corners. And then they abrade away...