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Charles4400:
All done and TOTAL SUCCESS!! WOOHOO!

Everything went well, I was very paranoid about paint peeling off but none did! Everything actually went as planned and Goo Gone is great!

Here's what went on:

I couldn't find the regular Goo Gone which I think is more liquidy so had to get 'Goo Gone Gel Spray' at Home Depot, which actually turned out for the best...



Heres the Mylar strip again and how long the strip is...a triangular shape leading to a ball drop:
 


I traced the shape of the strip out in case the strip did not come out in one piece and I needed to replace the strip with the same dimesnions:



Ok first spray of Goo Gone, I let it soak a bit and then started the peeling just a little with my fingernail and slowlsy peeled so I could get a grip. I didn;t have any plastic razorblades and didn't want to use a real blade in fear of scratching the PF. Fingernail and sray of goo gone did the trick:



Spray more goo gone and peel little by little, tugging gently left and right, here's me going over the initial spot of damaged mylar...no problems , and NO PAINT PEELING!



As I worked my way up I found that the gel form of goo gone is great for this application. It doesn't slide around everywhere and doesn't all get absorbed by your towel. What I ended up doing was getting a pool of the gel up against the mylar and bring my towel close enough so the pool would stay. I then didn't have to spray that much more goo gone and thus less mess and also made sure I always had a goo gone pool against the newly peeled mylar at all times!
Hard to see but there is a pool of goo gone gel there and I just followed it up as I peeled:



Allright almost done! As the Mylar narrowed it became much easier to peel and alot faster. All coming off in 1 strip and look at all that goop from the mylar glue on the mylar!



Here it is cleaned up! Smooth and clean and all parts intact!:


The two black marks near the two engines are under the coating, those seem to be printing defects and not from peeling mylar.  And for the life of me  I couldn't get that thin line of dirt running vertical from the left side of the hull off (don't know what that is, but also seems to be under the PF coating, its smooth and nothing I did would remove it)


This took about 30 mins mainly because I have never done anything like this before and I was very cautious at first. I felt however very confident after doing this and decided  to remove the 2 semi-cirlcle mylar pieces near the flipper bumpers...these came off easily and without a hitch:

Here's a before and after of one of them that I removed:


So I definately recommend goo gone for applications like this. I didn't have a problem and was pretty easy for a first timer such as myself.

I had read (and I forgot where) that the freezing method can cloud up inserts,and since my mylar was over many of them I didn't want to take a chance with that.

Anyways for me the Goo Gone Gel is the way to go !

Visitor Q:
Nicely Done!

Thanks for posting pictures in case anyone else has to tackle this.

A few things...

Have you thought about or found where to buy that piece of mylar? Are you going to cut and make your own?

I would make sure to get all that Goo Gone off of the PF. I agree that stuff is great but some people don't even recommend using Novus 1 because of it being wet like that and soaking into the PF.

Ps. Tracing option was ingenious.  :applaud:

Charles4400:
Oh I forgot to mention that I used Naptha to remove the residue of the goo gone left over. I got the globs of glue left over using more goo gone on the table as well.

Thanks guys I felt really good that it was a success!

To replace the mylar I got one of these from marcospecialties (I couldn;t find anything that looked like it would match the original) :

Mylar, mini, 5" wide By the Foot
http://www.marcospecialties.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=MMFT

and plan to cut out the shape of the mylar needed.

I should have also gotten the semi circle pre-cut ones but didn't plan on replacing them at the time of order :(

Thanks for the suggestion and info about the 'stress crack' I'll certainly look into that to get that off...stress cracks and their dirt sucks!

BTW I waxed the area already with Mothers 100% step 3 Carnauba wax ...put on 2 heavy coats. I thought I would put wax before applying the new mylar in case I had to tear it off again. Was this a bad idea? (I plan on waxing over the new mylar as well)

If I shouldn't have waxed yet (and now I'm feeling I shouldn't) should I use some detergent to remove the wax on the areas I plan on putting back the mylar to?

Charles4400:
Well just reapplied the mylar over the wax job I did earlier and then waxed over the mylar. Figure if it doesnt work out and starts to peel, I'll just remove it and start again....

Visitor Q:
If this was me, I would first have gone over the PF with Novus 2 for a good clean. Then I would go over it again with Novus 2 to make sure I did not miss any spots. Next I would go over it with two coats of Wax (Mothers Carnauba). Oh ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- and I forgot to tell you, replace the balls! Unless you did it already since you got it, be sure to replace the balls with new ones and wax them before putting them in the machine. Don't go too crazy with heavy, heavy coats of wax because sometimes too much build up can be a problem as well. You will start to get trails of the wax and it will get on the posts etc..

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