Spyridon
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I hate working with Williams wood control panels. I have not found an easy way to remove the adhesive under the old overlays. What the hell is that stuff they used?
Any one have a good solution to this?
I tried out YellowDog's suggestion (listed below) from this thread, but it didn't work. All I ended up with was a bunch of paper towels stuck to the wood.
Any one have a good solution to this?
I tried out YellowDog's suggestion (listed below) from this thread, but it didn't work. All I ended up with was a bunch of paper towels stuck to the wood.
I use GoofOff. You'll need 3 heavy garbage bags. A lot of paper towels and a Can of GoofOff.
Most of my control panels are from Williams machines, so burning the overlays off is not an option (although considered several times).
Lay the paper towels over the top of the control panel and wet them down well with GoofOff. Slide the whole thing into the plastic garbage bag and tie it. Take the second garbage bag and slide it over the first one (the first one goes in tied side first) and then tie it. Take the third one and slide it over the second one the same way (tied side first).
Let it sit in the garage overnight. In the morning open the bags outside and scrape the remains of the CPO(s) off with a putty knife.
I used to do it with just one garbage bag, but the garage smelled like GoofOff for hours. Three seems to hold most of it in. This is also why you don't use this method in the house.
The last control panel I did this to took about an hour to get it in shape to sand. I would still be scraping if I hadn't tried this. It had a generic CPO on top of a Mr. Do CPO on top of part of a Haunted Castle CPO on top of a Stargate CPO. One of them looked like they had put it on using that black linoleum adhesive. It was a mess.
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