Humbug
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 posted on 28/2/08 at 08:50 AM |
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How to remove silicone sealant
Purely hypothetically  if you had, say, put on a lexan screen and put a strip of silicone sealant along the bottom, and were now wanting to put an
aeroscreen on, how would you get rid of the silicone sealant from teh scuttle?
I've tried a knife (removes the top part), meths and a heat gun. Any other suggestions?
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 28/2/08 at 08:59 AM |
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good luck 
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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jabs
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| posted on 28/2/08 at 09:01 AM |
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Silicone remover, b&q sell it. don't know how good it is or how it would effect the paint/fibreglass
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 28/2/08 at 09:05 AM |
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If it's the normal domestic type of silicon sealant (not a 'special' car type) then you can get silicon sealant remover from the
plumbing section of most DIY stores. It's used when people want to replace sealant round a bath.
Probably worth trying it out on a remote corner of the GRP before using in a visible area! It does get used with baths made of fibreglass, so it
should be ok.
HTH,
David
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02GF74
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| posted on 28/2/08 at 09:09 AM |
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as they say, silicone removere, also removes paint,
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r1_pete
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| posted on 28/2/08 at 09:17 AM |
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Screwfix silicone
remover
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Humbug
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| posted on 28/2/08 at 09:20 AM |
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ta for the tips
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 28/2/08 at 09:23 AM |
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never used it before but reading the COSH sheet it does sound like a test should be done bofore hand
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TGR-ECOSSE
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| posted on 28/2/08 at 09:34 AM |
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I have used silicone remover on grp before and it made a realy good job but i would do a test patch first.
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dhutch
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| posted on 28/2/08 at 10:25 AM |
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Never used the stuff. But silcon is pretty inert stuff!
- A lot of modern baths/showertrays are grp so i presume it would be ok with them, or would mention specifcaly that is was not. However a test is
alwyas bast. Have a good wipe of an area you can affor to loose, leave it a while, and see what it looks like!
I'd mechanicaly remove as much as i could first as well, a lot might just peel off depending on how well it stuck.
Daniel
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Paul TigerB6
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| posted on 28/2/08 at 10:31 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by r1_pete
Screwfix silicone
remover
I used this to remove all the bathroom sealant from my part built Tiger B6. What a ball ache to do!!! It more hardened the sealant so it could be
scraped off rather than simply removed it.
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oldtimer
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| posted on 29/2/08 at 05:39 PM |
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silicone remover
I've heard that washing up liquid is good at removing unset silicone sealant, never tried it though!..........
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