[Mgs] question about paint prep

[Max Heim]

Diesel fuel is an equally available and comparably priced solvent with the
advantage of not being flammable at all, for all practical purposes.

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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Menlo Park, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires

on 10/3/11 3:32 PM, Barney Gaylord at barneymg at mgaguru.com wrote:

> Much truth there.  But gasoline is a very good solvent for many
> applications, and much cheaper than many other solvents.  I commonly
> use it to wash down an engine to remove grease, oil and dirt, then
> follow with a good rinse with lacquer thinner to remove the residue
> left behind by the first wash.  Lacquer thinner not only removes the
> fuel slime but may also remove a lot of paint that may remain, and it
> leaes nothing behind when it dries (rapidly).  Lots of solvents are
> flamable, so treat accordingly. What else do you have that will
> remove glue and oil, is NOT flamable, and will leave a pristienly
> clean surface for painting?  Gasoline is not so bad to work with as a
> cleaner if you treat it with proper respect.
> 
> 
> At 02:40 PM 10/3/2011 -0700, Richard Ewald wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Barney Gaylord
>> <<mailto:barneymg at mgaguru.com>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???? ....