freeskier
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i finally took delivery of a mac 1700 in red. box is beautiful except one bumper stucker that needs to go. do i use a hair dryer? heat gun? the paint on the box is good and ide like to do this as cleanly as possible.
sticker removal
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willysrule
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Heat gun, just don't put enough heat to it to mess up the paint...then clean the sticky residue off with some good cleaner, that goo gone xtreme works pretty good…
z28snksknr
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rubbing alcohol has worked for me in the past, as has WD-40
whatever you decide to use, try it out on a inconspicuous spot of the box first, jsut to be sure.
whatever you decide to use, try it out on a inconspicuous spot of the box first, jsut to be sure.
Az Scooter
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Any auto body shop will have a rubber sticker removal wheel that you put in a drill. They work great, and are well proven
Zrexxer
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Jeez, this is definitely one of those things that "ain't rocket science." Get your fingernail under the edge of it and start pulling.
MyKingdom
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If that is you on your Avatar you should have a hair blow dryer If you are a he and is married or have a daughter they should have one. J/K
Blow dryer and WD-40 should do the trick.
Blow dryer and WD-40 should do the trick.
HandyManny
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Do people really do this?
db130
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googone is also a good alternative.
Stevedore
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I recently bought the HF roller cabinet & top box, and immediately wanted to get rid of the giant US General sticker inside of the top box lid. I used a heat gun on a low setting & peeled most of it off with no trouble. Left a lot of residue, which came off with Goo-Gone; no damage to the paint.
G1GRANDEUR
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I did one time with car wax.
Easy to wipe off and blow dust in second.
To OP, sticker remove wheel might work, so as WD-40 with elbow grease.
HandyManny
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I did one time with car wax.
Easy to wipe off and blow dust in second.
To OP, sticker remove wheel might work, so as WD-40 with elbow grease.
To each they're own I guess. I've just never seen a reason to do so. When I worked in the industry I'd simply blow off my tool cabinet with an air hose at the end of every week. On a very rare occasion I'd simply wet a shop rag with distilled water and wipe off any dusty/dirty film that had build up. Beyond that I never saw the need to polish or wax my tool boxes or chests. Now my tool boxes and chests simply sit in my own garage collecting dust while they store my tools and I couldn't care one bit. My stuff still gets used but not daily anymore
Seems to be a recent anomoly lately hearing of guys obsessions with waxing their boxes and polishing their hand tools, fussing over so much as a finger print on their tools. Not really bashing anyone. I just hear about it on this forum quite a bit and frankly it makes me scratch my head and chuckle a little. I've been using hand tools for over 50 years and while wrenching professionally I never witnesses such an obsession with waxing or polishing of tools or boxes. All the guys I knew were more concerned with using their stuff well to get the job done, and make a living. Most pros in my day respected their tools and invested money in them, but they also reaslized they were tools meant to actually be handled and to be used.
For me it's always been very simple - My toolbox and tool chest are for organizing and storing my tools. My tools are for repairing and upkeep of everything else, and to get the job done. It's that simple. My tools get treated with respect and used well, wiped off after a job is complete, that's it. It's as simple as that.
znowaczyk
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people that dont count on flat rate pay to make a living, maybe??
neverenoughtools
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HandyManny
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Oh, okay I suppose one waxing job won't hurt
I guess you can use turtle wax, the paste or the spray on liquid. Might make the surface repel dust better.ARAMP1
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I use 3M adhesive remover for any sticker removal tasks. Used it on every new and used vehicle I've ever bought to remove the dealer advertisement. I've used it to remove other things too, but it's safe on pretty much all finishes. I picked up a can of it from NAPA about 10-12 years ago and I still have a third of the can left.
HandyManny
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I understand the dilema here. Only because I see so many products with large stickers on them lately put on by the manufacturer. Go to peel them off and only the top layer rips off. Zippo or Ronson lighter fluid works well to removing the goo. Also 90+% rubbing alcohol works well too. I've also come to like Hoppes #9 Nitro Solvent for that stuff too. Kerosene or deisel fuel works too.
willy3486
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Heat gun works great if it doesn't get to hot. I have one at work that does great on stickers. But the one I have at home gets hotter and was made more for stripping so I am careful to not get things too hot. WD 40 will loosen the adhesive. I have stuff at work made specific for it. But if you are not going to use it more than once a heat gun and wd40 will work. But be careful with the wd40 and the heat gun so it won't catch fire.
JML2
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ScrapeRite plastic "razor" blades are made for just this purpose. Follow-up with some 91% isopropyl alcohol and/or orange-oil based cleaner for any glue residue. Or Flitz polish. (That 3M stuff has been discontinued because of the toxic contents; the new version is orange-oil based).
http://www.autogeek.net/scraperite-plastic-razor-blades.html
http://www.autogeek.net/scraperite-plastic-razor-blades.html
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hitekrednek
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WD-40 also works ok for removing the sticky glue residue