Window urothane? Black Sticky Stuff!

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Window urothane? Black Sticky Stuff!

Postby CelicaGT8 » Sun Mar 22, 2009 11:35 pm

Heya all

Working on my project, but how the @$% do you get that black sticky urothane stuff off the paint from around the edge of the rear windows?
Its horrible!
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Postby postfach » Sun Mar 22, 2009 11:48 pm

Acetone works pretty good, just be careful though, it might damage the paint.

I used it to clean it off on my car. It doesn't look like anything happened to the paint but I'd rather you didn't blame me if something went wrong :P
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Postby Bling » Sun Mar 22, 2009 11:50 pm

Depends if you can damage the paint or not... I used a grinder on my starlet :lol: Still took a while, but it was easier to remove when it was cold, just used a scraper. The warmer it is the more of a c**t it is to get off.
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Postby CelicaGT8 » Sun Mar 22, 2009 11:58 pm

active ingredient in nail polish remover, sounds interesting, i want some.

Yea its getting a full panel and paint, i have a brokn leg atm so i cant get far, dont even have a legal car anymore.

illl see what i can get off the net :D
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Postby postfach » Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:08 am

yeah just get it on a rag and work on a small area at a time, mine came out looking as if the black shit was never there
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Postby samlloyd » Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:43 am

wire brush on angle grinder. Wear dust mask though, smells kinda funky and makes the garage turn into blue smoke
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Postby Jazza » Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:53 am

postfach wrote:yeah just get it on a rag and work on a small area at a time, mine came out looking as if the black sh*t was never there


+1 Did the same
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Postby tsoob » Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:59 am

yep alex is right, thinners will also work great and is really cheap from super cheap HAHAHA
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Postby neo » Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:43 pm

Or use WEP? from paint shops, its the active ingredient in paint, and is a very close relative to acetone.

Problem being like all things in this category (acetone, WEP, nailpolish remover, thinners), it will eat paint.

Have you tried a citrus degreaser or [pure] simply green, its more effort but leaves the paint :)
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Postby postfach » Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:16 pm

Like I said, my paint never came off...It will take waay more effort to remove the paint with acetone that it will to get the black stuff off, basically unless you're a munt and just keep on going for hours after you've removed the goo, you won't mess it up.
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Postby rwd_mayhem » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:10 pm

i used kerosene, didnt damage paint.
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Postby CelicaGT8 » Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:20 pm

I just used petrol in the end! worked great, just scraped most of the stuff off first then rubed. mint

Then went to finish it off with the sander, and my mouse sander broke :(
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