Achillesheel
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Without 240v power at the boat, so hairdryer/hot air gun not an option.
Any advice gratefully received.
Any advice gratefully received.
Removing stick on letters (again, sorry)
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Anonymous
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It's so much easier to do with heat...can't you borrow a genny for the day from some kind friend?
savageseadog
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There is a gas powered hot hair gun arrangement used for shrink wrapping pallets that or something similar could do it. Perhaps hot or boiling water in some way.
cindersailor
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Heat really is the best way and makes removal very easy. Without it you are in for a long job and risk scratching the hull. Any adhesive remaining can be removed with white spirit. Very careful use of a gas flame could be tried, but at the risk of scortching the hull.
sheeplove
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Try Ronson lighter fuel.
Achillesheel
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OK, we'll have to organise some electricity. Is a hair dryer sufficient? I have read on here that hot air guns can be a bit fierce.
TiggerToo
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Have you tried MEK?
Achillesheel
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No, what is it?
Finbar
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Try hot water - worked for me
widgeon
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From bitter experience, I definitely wouldn't recommend cold scraping.
Csail
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Excuse the spelling but MEK--- Methyl Ethyl keytone
VicS
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Excuse the spelling but MEK--- Methyl Ethyl keytone
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Methyl ethyl ketone but now often called butanone. It is very similar in properties to acetone (propanone) so prolonged contact with the gel coat perhaps best avoided
Excuse the spelling but MEK--- Methyl Ethyl keytone
[/ QUOTE ] Absolutely no excuse what so ever.
Methyl ethyl ketone but now often called butanone. It is very similar in properties to acetone (propanone) so prolonged contact with the gel coat perhaps best avoided
capricorn
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Hairdryer more than suffiecient IME, even if just using a hairdryer you can get it a bit too warm if you get too close and the glue gets gunky and requires cleanup afterwards, not the end of the world though, as others have said a bit of white spirit makes it all ok.
Second all the comments others have said about trying to sort out some portable electricity, it really does make it much, much easier.
Second all the comments others have said about trying to sort out some portable electricity, it really does make it much, much easier.
Spuddy
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As part of my engine starting protocol, I use a 12 V hairdryer from camping shop - less than a tenner. Not sure if it would get hot enough
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Anonymous
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He wouldn't want to use that without a battery charger. Forgive me for commenting but as it is an open forum, isn't that pretty self-defeating as a starting technique? Diesels need speed to start far more than heat (fast cranking develops heat by compression in the head, where it is needed). What do you blow the warm air onto?
Spuddy
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self defeating ?
Well, no cos it works. Warm air down air intake. Less than ideal, I know and my full list of cons was in a previous post.
Well, no cos it works. Warm air down air intake. Less than ideal, I know and my full list of cons was in a previous post.
Artemis_C2121
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Worked in the motor trade for years always used boiling water to remove graphics without any probs
BrendanS
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how do you apply the boiling water?
VicS
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2-buntanone
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?????? some derivative of Baby Spice, Emma Buntan? read my earlier post to see what it's name really is.
The "2 " although technically correct is not really necessary and not often not used because there is only one isomer of butanone.
2-buntanone
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?????? some derivative of Baby Spice, Emma Buntan? read my earlier post to see what it's name really is.
The "2 " although technically correct is not really necessary and not often not used because there is only one isomer of butanone.