[TR] Removing carpet glue

Doug Mathews mathews at uga.edu
Tue Nov 25 07:41:46 MST 2014


It may have been glued down with contact cement. I googled removing this 
from metal and got lots of hits.

This url is for a product from Home Depot.
http://tinyurl.com/odg8qfw

Doug
On 11/25/2014 9:09 AM, Brad Kahler wrote:
> The previous owner of my TR6 replaced the original carpet years ago with a
> cheap black carpet set that he glued in place.  Late last night I managed
> to get all of the carpet pulled up and am now looking for methods of
> removing the old glue (brown in color) from the floorboards and elsewhere.
>
> >From my brief google searches it seems that carpet glue is close to
> impossible to remove.  this is not exactly what I wanted to hear!
>
> Any suggestions on methods that you've tried that actually worked?
>
> I'm hoping to get this task done over the Thanksgiving weekend.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Brad
> 1972 TR6
> 1963 TR4


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