Cleaning stuff

TickledPink

For those of you that have removed old vinyl decal with an eraser, what did you use to fully clean off the area afterwards, to make it ready for new vinyl decal?

Ian

Acetone should remove any glue but 3M buffing compound and rotary buffer works well after.

TonyG13

I used denatured alcohol and/or Goo Gone.

TickledPink

Cheers guys 👍

YYZRC

Acetone is awesome just don’t get it on plastic. 

mattie

If the gelcoat is heaved up with the old name imprint - you can wetsand with a block before buffer with compound.

mattie

WD40 is good at removing glue residue if no GooGone handy

LaRea

Like @mattie said -- Those solutions will remove the adhesive, but that's only part of the problem.  If the vinyl was there more than a couple years, you might need to restore the surrounding area.  It might need compounding, or maybe wet-sanding and then compounding.  Otherwise, the parts under the vinyl might look different from the rest.  

Spyderweb

I’ve always used WD40.

rasbury

Sounds like your going to put more vinyl back down? Is it a colored hull? If so you for sure have to replace as it would look odd. I'd guess if it's a white hull a quick buff would blend it in. Mine is tan and white.

TickledPink

@rasbury I've taken the vinyl decal off with an eraser that attaches to a drill. It's removed it all without leaving a trace, no shadow, nothing, just the bits of rubber from the eraser that I want to make sure is all gone before I put the new name on. Its going onto the white part.

rasbury

I used the same but the boat was faded so when I got the decal off, it was super "new". Florida sun...

TickledPink

TickledPink

All done 🙂

Rich_

Wow that looks like one slippery dock!

TickledPink

It looks worse than it is

rasbury

TickledPink said:

It looks worse than it is

Zoom on it, looks good to me. Pics are tuff sometime...