Jersey Jim
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Does anyone have any thoughts on the best/easiest method to remove old cracked and warped vinyl decals from a fiberglass camper?
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Tom/Barb
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Jersey Jim wrote:Does anyone have any thoughts on the best/easiest method to remove old cracked and warped vinyl decals from a fiberglass camper?
IF it is real gel-coat fiberglass you can wash them off with acetone.
try a small area where it can't be seen for a starter.
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hawkman541
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3M makes a decal remover that you can get at most auto parts stores. I used it and it works like a charm. Good Luck
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cummins02
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I haven't removed old stickers from a trailer but at work we use "afta" very good removes stickers glue etc without harming paint from cars
Hope it helps
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Captain_Happy
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I removed all the vinyl graghics off our Fiberglass Motorhome this year. All cracked and sun faded.
First I bought a heat gun as adviced by others on this forum, that sure didn't work out. left a really big mess of glue behind. Got out my razor blade scrapper and off the vinyl came. Hardly any glue left behind. Used Goo Gone to get the remaining glue off, which wasn't much. What's left behind is the area that's whiter than the rest of the rig. Masked and preped, and then re-sprayed with 2 step auto paint that I get color matched at our local paint supplier.
Now I wished I had taken before and after pics. even the DW says it looks great.
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Denny & Jami
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Let it set in the sun and get good and warm and start at a corner and pull them off, clean up the glue and what doesn't come off with mineral spirits and a plastic scraper. Don't get the mineral spirits on any of the silicon because it does a good job of removing it also.
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GaryGus
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Captain Happy,
I suspect that there are numbers of us out here that would like to try your paint project. If you could give us a little more info on how you did it, I know I would be apprecative. I'm asking about "2-step paint, spraying utensils and techniques,etc."
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logansrun
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Get urself an eraser wheel made by 3M that u use with ur electric drill....works like a charm, then some glue remover after that.....job done!!!!
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j-d
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The spray remover called "Sticker Shock" is basically WD-40 in a smaller more expensive package. When I removed graphics from fiberglass end caps, I used a scraper and WD-40. The WD didn't seem to be doing anything but then I could tell it was easier to get the scraper started.
Haven't used an Eraser Wheel but I've heard good reports about it in other threads.
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Dick_B
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Check out these suggestions from Mark Polk
http://www.rvtechtips.com/2012/06/remove-those-unwanted-rv-decals-and.html
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