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Re: tree sap removal

To: IfixMGs@aol.com, rickfisk@concentric.net, spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: tree sap removal
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 02:36:29 GMT
      WD40 in a microwave????  Have you made sure your home owners policy is 
paid up and your will made out!!!!  Wd40 is highly flammable.


>From: IfixMGs@aol.com
>Reply-To: IfixMGs@aol.com
>To: rickfisk@concentric.net, spridgets@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: tree sap removal
>Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 21:53:53 EDT
>
>In a message dated 7/7/00 5:03:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>rickfisk@concentric.net writes:
>
><< My father-in-law parked my wife's new car (well new to us) under a pine
>  tree and I have sap all over  >>
>       Try spraying WD40 into a small container and heating it to 120f (I 
>put
>it in a saran covered glass in the microwave for about 15 sec at a time).
>Gently rub the sap with latex gloved finger and an icecream stick or  a
>rubber kitchen spatula to remove all but a the spot.  Use PAM as a release
>agent on the spatula and the gloves. I used tar remover to get the last few
>layers, and Meguiars 3 step cleaner/polish/wax to blend it in.
>         I just did a 96 Pontiac that sat under a pine tree since last 
>summer,
>and it was coated with sap and bird droppings. The paint must be really 
>good
>quality - no blemishes remained.
>        Mark Childers   Union Jack Spares & Repairs Virginia Beach Virginia

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