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The flour trick for mylar adhesive removal

By Firebaall

11 years ago


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    #55 11 years ago

    Brake cleaner is great for removing adhesive… but it does pull up some paint. I recently used it to remove some decal adhesive from my skeeball machine when I was replacing the decal. The rag had some yellow paint (not much) on it when I was done, a big reason I would be nervous putting it on a playfield. But I have had great sucess with Rustoleum's Adhesive Remover pulling side art adhesive from arcade machines. It works MUCH better than Goo Gone and didn't hurt the paint on the cab at all. It only took about 15-20 minutes to remove all the adhesive from the side of a cab. I'll be pulling the mylar off my Grand Lizard next week and might try the Rustoleum, but was leaning towards the Goo Gone since I had read of so many people using it. The Rustoleum uses the same active ingredient as Goo Gone, but has a different concentration. Anyone here ever try it before?

    #58 11 years ago
    Quoted from teekee:

    I have used it on over twenty WPC 90's and new Stern play fields. It hurts nothing! It works great and does not remove paint or any of the factory clear. I can't confirm the older stuff but it works great on any of the newer play fields.

    Well, I tackled my playfeild today. I actually ended up using brake cleaner to remove the adhesive. It works much faster than Goo Gone or Rustoleum's Adhesive Remover. One thing to be careful with though, it will exacerbate paint removal around damaged paint areas. I went with the brake cleaner because it was much easier to just wipe up the adhesive with paper towels. Using a plastic scrapper and the Rustoleum was horrible. Thanks for the tip!

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