removing badging
12-06-2002, 01:17 PM
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removing badging
ok, so this isn't related to any of my vehicles...
but say i had a newer car with badging attached with that dual side adhesive foam stuff, and i wanted to remove it, what would be the best way without damaging paint?
but say i had a newer car with badging attached with that dual side adhesive foam stuff, and i wanted to remove it, what would be the best way without damaging paint?
12-06-2002, 01:21 PM
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A heat gun will usually do it pretty easy. Even a big honking hair dryer. 3m also has the auto adhesive remover. I have never had to use it but I understand it works well.
12-06-2002, 01:23 PM
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My buddy took off his pin stripe once, kind of relavent here. He heated it up with a hair drier and used a guitar pic to scrape, then a used cleaner wax. If you didn't know it was ever there, you couldn't see it. <img src="graemlins/beerchug.gif" border="0" alt="[cheers]" />
12-06-2002, 01:35 PM
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Best thing for removing badges that have double sided foam backing or RTV, get some waxed twine and use it like a saw. This saved the badge and will not scratch the paint.
A light adhesive remover will take the rest off, and for the RTV, get silicone gasket remover and don't let it sit on the paint for long.
A light adhesive remover will take the rest off, and for the RTV, get silicone gasket remover and don't let it sit on the paint for long.
12-06-2002, 01:50 PM
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The PO of my 944 slathered it with stickers for some reason. The 3M stuff will take some of them off, but more often than not you have to soak it and scrape it and soak it and scrape it and it takes forever.
I take a clothes iron, set it to about the middle setting, put a layer or two of old t-shirt between the iron's bottom and the offending sticker/badge/etc, and hold the iron on it for 15 sec or so. Loosens even old nasty impossible to remove stickers right up.
It's basically the heat thing but the iron localizes the heat very well.
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I take a clothes iron, set it to about the middle setting, put a layer or two of old t-shirt between the iron's bottom and the offending sticker/badge/etc, and hold the iron on it for 15 sec or so. Loosens even old nasty impossible to remove stickers right up.
It's basically the heat thing but the iron localizes the heat very well.
Bryan
12-06-2002, 02:31 PM
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[quote]Originally posted by Perry 951:
get some waxed twine and use it like a saw. <hr></blockquote>
ITYM dental floss. HTH.
I used dental floss when I replaced the "944" emblem on my car. It worked fine, and had the badge been in one piece to begin with, it would have come off as a whole.
get some waxed twine and use it like a saw. <hr></blockquote>
ITYM dental floss. HTH.
I used dental floss when I replaced the "944" emblem on my car. It worked fine, and had the badge been in one piece to begin with, it would have come off as a whole.