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Re: Stubborn Adhesive

To: "Sumner Weisman" <sweisman@gis.net>
Subject: Re: Stubborn Adhesive
From: Allen Nugent <A.Nugent@unsw.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 11:20:46 +1000 (EST)
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
At 16:54 19/05/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Tom,
>
>Go down to Home Depot or other major hardware store and pick up a bottle of
>acetone.  It is a strong solvent and should do the job.  I don't think
>it'll hurt the chrome -- if I'm wrong about that would listers please
>correct me.  It's good to use rubber gloves with it.

Sumner,

I believe nail polish remover (which he has already tried) _is_ acetone.
This stuff must be really sticky!

Xylene is good for removing the kind of glue used on adhesive labels.

Of course, by now, poor Tom has spent more money on solvents than on the
bloody luggage rack!

Allen Nugent
Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney  2052  Australia


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