Safest way to remove stickers from glass
Safest way to remove stickers from glass
I picked up a replacement top tailgate for my RR last night but the glass is covered in stickers. What it the safest way to remove them without scratching the glass? Picking at them with my fingernails is only flaking off very small bits and I don't want to risk a scraper as the last time I did that, I scratched a window (which 5 years later, still bothers me).
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Re: Safest way to remove stickers from glass
Hair dryer to warm them up might soften the glue. There is a product called 'Sticky Stuff Remover' that might work
Mike
Mike
Re: Safest way to remove stickers from glass
Use some thinners to soften them and then use a plastic scraper, you'll have them off in no time 
Depending on how long they've been on, you might get some ghost images of the stickers left on the glass which I have never been successful in removing.
Depending on how long they've been on, you might get some ghost images of the stickers left on the glass which I have never been successful in removing.
Last edited by jpsh120 on Wed Feb 05, 2014 1:43 pm, edited 1 time in total.
1971 Sunbeam Rapier H120
Re: Safest way to remove stickers from glass
Nail varnish remover on tissue left on the sticker for about 30 min, then use your finger
nail or a loly pop stick to scrap the sticker off. Repeat as messasary.
nail or a loly pop stick to scrap the sticker off. Repeat as messasary.
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Re: Safest way to remove stickers from glass
Sounds like I need to wait for SWMBO to go out and pinch her hair dryer and nail varnish remover.
Cheers guys, I will let you know how I get on. Some people seem to think that "comedy stickers" (to steal a phrase from JC) are entertaining. I think they are damn irritating!
Cheers guys, I will let you know how I get on. Some people seem to think that "comedy stickers" (to steal a phrase from JC) are entertaining. I think they are damn irritating!
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Re: Safest way to remove stickers from glass
Use cellulose thinners - much cheaper than nail varnish and more or less the same thing but without the bits that keep your skin smooth.
I also find careful use of a razor blade (the open type, not disposable) works well too.
I also find careful use of a razor blade (the open type, not disposable) works well too.
Some people are like Slinkies - they serve no useful purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them downstairs.
This should depend on whether the HRW is embedded or printed 
, if the former then scraping away to your heart's content will be grand, if the latter then don't use anything other than an alcohol-based liquid (IPA is fine) as cellulose thinners takes the print off and scraping almost always does too where anything sticky is on the element.
I'm thinking that this is old enough to be an embedded one (late '70s - mid '90s mostly) but it's always as well to check. Many from after the mid to late 1990s are printed by the same process that prints resistors, etc. onto Paxolin. Cheaper to make.
What do the stickers say? Are there no good ones at all on there?
, if the former then scraping away to your heart's content will be grand, if the latter then don't use anything other than an alcohol-based liquid (IPA is fine) as cellulose thinners takes the print off and scraping almost always does too where anything sticky is on the element.I'm thinking that this is old enough to be an embedded one (late '70s - mid '90s mostly) but it's always as well to check. Many from after the mid to late 1990s are printed by the same process that prints resistors, etc. onto Paxolin. Cheaper to make.
What do the stickers say? Are there no good ones at all on there?
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
Re: Safest way to remove stickers from glass
Fortunately the only sticker on the inside is "LEX Land Rover" which can stay (mainly as it is the same supplying dealer as mine came from originally). It is 1994 vintage, I think the heated element wires are embedded but I can't claim to have checked.
The stickers on the outside say "100% BMW FREE", "One Life Live It", a P&O GB Sticker and some off-road slogans which I can't remember off hand. Some daft comments about being dirty.
I will take the cheapest solution first which is to use things SWMBO has paid for
The stickers on the outside say "100% BMW FREE", "One Life Live It", a P&O GB Sticker and some off-road slogans which I can't remember off hand. Some daft comments about being dirty.
I will take the cheapest solution first which is to use things SWMBO has paid for
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Re: Safest way to remove stickers from glass
Stickers on the outside on glass? How queer. 
At least this eliminates any concern about the HRW though.
At least this eliminates any concern about the HRW though.J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
Re: Safest way to remove stickers from glass
Agreed - still evidence of some old stickers on son's Mini that had already been removed when we bought it about five years ago but even now you can still see where they were - must have been damn powerful glue to leave that sort of mark - it's almost etched into the glassjpsh120 wrote:Depending on how long they've been on, you might get some ghost images of the stickers left on the glass which I have never been successful in removing.
White Spirit might be another possibility to use to get the residue off . . . . .