Stripping Vinyl Side art?

[JeffC]

I had a similar experience. Tighe's Simpson pictures don't lie, it obviously worked well for him, but Acetone was useless for me. I recently peeled a punch of vinyl and was left with a layer of glue on the particle board. I tried acetone with a towel, lightly scrubing it around, pouring it on, letting it sit...everything I could think of...it didn nothing to the glue. I'm guessing different types of adhesive were used, and my cab had some kind that didn't react with Acetone.

I later found that my stupid mistake was using a heat gun that wasn't nearly hot enough. Once I got the right gun, I could heat the clue to a paste and easily scrap it away.

 

[Tighe]

I had a similar experience. Tighe's Simpson pictures don't lie, it obviously worked well for him, but Acetone was useless for me. I recently peeled a punch of vinyl and was left with a layer of glue on the particle board. I tried acetone with a towel, lightly scrubing it around, pouring it on, letting it sit...everything I could think of...it didn nothing to the glue. I'm guessing different types of adhesive were used, and my cab had some kind that didn't react with Acetone.

I later found that my stupid mistake was using a heat gun that wasn't nearly hot enough. Once I got the right gun, I could heat the clue to a paste and easily scrap it away.

Very interesting! Yah for me the acetone was like magic! I wonder what kind of glue my simpsons had, and what yours had.

 

[FrizzleFried]

I just stripped two cabinets:

Star Wars... THE CAB FROM HELL! It laughed at a heat gun. It tried to KISS the heated decal remover I have. I used trusty Soy-Gel... 24 hours later... BLEAH! It did jack (well, it took about 10% of the art off). The stuff usually works great but not with Star Wars. I had to go to the nasty skull and crossbones stuff you get at Home Depot... it worked... in 3 coats on each side! It took about (get this) a total of 6 hours of hard work to get the front and both sides off. It was ridiculous...easily the worst/hardest cab I ever took art off.

Next came PAPERBOY. Ha! I removed the left side in 5 minutes with my HANDS ONLY (no kidding). The right side took a bit longer at about 40 minutes with a razor blade only....



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[DarrenF]

I'm about to deal with a Lethal Enforcers cab, which has been spraypainted black.

Whatta you guys think? Heat gun? Chemicals? Or just sand it all off?

 

[Broodwich]

citristrip

unless you don't wanna save what's under the paint, then just sand it