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Main => Woodworking => Topic started by: silar on April 06, 2013, 03:00:37 pm
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I've been working on my cab trying to remove the old contact cement on the sides where someone had laminated them with Formica. I've tried goof off, acetone, and mineral spirits as far as chemicals and a heat gun and scraper. The heat gun and scraper method worked better but it was a slow and tedious process...
Well, I do believe I've finally found the easiest and fastest way to remove the cement! This is not for anyone that wants to try to preserve the original finish so you've been warned!
Take a heat gun, hold it about 1/2" to 1" above the contact cement and slowly move it along making sure the cement starts to bubble and brown as shown in the pic. Let it cool a bit, and then come back with a fine wire brush in your drill (shown in the second pic) and go over it. It comes right off!!! So much easier than wearing yourself out trying to scrap that junk off. The wire brush doesn't damage the plywood.
Also less of a smell than using chemicals! :applaud:
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And here is after... Like I said, not for anyone who is trying to preserve the finish underneath...
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Freezing it may work as well.
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Most people can get or already have a heat gun.. A bit harder to find a CO2 extingusher... Or a Freeze gun.. :lol
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Cans of the keyboard cleaner propellant stuff. Hold it upside down. That's the common method for removing mylar from pinball playfields.
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Cans of the keyboard cleaner propellant stuff. Hold it upside down. That's the common method for removing mylar from pinball playfields.
Good point, but I'd say that would start getting expensive if you had a lot of contact cement to remove.