[Mgs] question about paint prep

[Richard Ewald]

Gasoline is a very poor item to use as a cleaner.  Besides the fumes being
explosive, it leaves a greasy residue that will have to be cleaned up before
paint can be successfully applied.
$.02
Rick

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Barney Gaylord <barneymg at mgaguru.com>wrote:

> 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???? ....
>>
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