[Mgs] question about paint prep

[Barney Gaylord]

I'm sure it depends on the type of adhesive.  I install carpet 
padding and a lot of the carpet in my MGA with "carpet adhesive" 
bought by the gallon from Home Depot.  I think it is latex based, and 
fairly slow drying.  I have remove old carpet and installed new 
carpet a couple of times by now.  I settled on soaking it with 
gasoline, scraping out the bulk of it with a gasket scraper, and 
rubbing it with steel wool to wash it clean.  I was at first sort of 
surprised that gasoline was a solvent for the glue, but whatever 
works.  Use rubber gloves, and no smoking please.


At 05:19 PM 10/2/2011 -0700, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
>.... the interior is tougher. .... I have had poor performance 
>removing the glue used to keep the carpet down .... I would like to 
>get the glue off. Any suggestions???? ....