[TR] decal

Bill anabil007 at comcast.net
Thu Jul 16 08:38:43 MDT 2009


I have found that judicious application from a heat gun does wonders 
loosening decals of any kind.  No paint or glass damage, have not 
tried it on plexiglass...


>jim tobler wrote:
>>I know the horse has bolted, but next time try turps (turpentine).
>>For some reason it softens most glues and doesn't harm most substrates.
>>(Not original, was told about it by a cluey friend.)
>Thanks Jim,  I'll try to keep that in mind.  The only decal left on 
>my TR is the FOT decal on my windscreen but the Land Rover has the 
>URL of my Land Rover web site and a very large decal from the 
>truck's sponsor company.  Hopefully I will not get tagged with a 
>decal.
>The hard top is new to me and I getting it to fit.  My mounts from 
>the old rusty hard top are a little off for this top and I need to 
>train the new waist gasket.  It took me a chunk of a day to get the 
>mounts lined up and the top fitted with the new gasket in place. 
>When I think the waist gasket is formed I'll remove the top and get 
>it refinished.  My old one was white on a signal red car.  I'm 
>toying with the idea of making the new top signal red.  The new top 
>is BRG. It makes my TR very Christmasy.


-- 
"Thinking is the hardest work there is. That's why so few people 
undertake it." - Henry Ford
Bill Pugh
1957 TR3
"Casper"
TS16765L
Wallace, CA


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