I have found that judicious application from a heat gun does wonders
loosening decals of any kind. No paint or glass damage, have not
tried it on plexiglass...
>jim tobler wrote:
>>I know the horse has bolted, but next time try turps (turpentine).
>>For some reason it softens most glues and doesn't harm most substrates.
>>(Not original, was told about it by a cluey friend.)
>Thanks Jim, I'll try to keep that in mind. The only decal left on
>my TR is the FOT decal on my windscreen but the Land Rover has the
>URL of my Land Rover web site and a very large decal from the
>truck's sponsor company. Hopefully I will not get tagged with a
>decal.
>The hard top is new to me and I getting it to fit. My mounts from
>the old rusty hard top are a little off for this top and I need to
>train the new waist gasket. It took me a chunk of a day to get the
>mounts lined up and the top fitted with the new gasket in place.
>When I think the waist gasket is formed I'll remove the top and get
>it refinished. My old one was white on a signal red car. I'm
>toying with the idea of making the new top signal red. The new top
>is BRG. It makes my TR very Christmasy.
--
"Thinking is the hardest work there is. That's why so few people
undertake it." - Henry Ford
Bill Pugh
1957 TR3
"Casper"
TS16765L
Wallace, CA
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