Uncle Fuzzy wrote:
A while back I posted that I had used Monokote trim to cover some of
the larger holes in my Speed Astir fuselage. They did a nice neat job
of covering the holes, but here's the follow-up. I removed one a
couple weeks ago that had been in place for a couple months. The
mylar pulled off cleanly, but left the adhesive behind, and boy howdy
was that stuff difficult to remove! Perhaps with the RIGHT solvent,
it wouldn't be a pain, but the 3M General Adhesive Cleaner doesn't do
much but make it gooey. If anybody knows what sort of solvent would
work better on the Monokote trim adhesive, please chime in, cause I'm
sure the 'racing checker' patches made my glider faster!



Try WD-40, and a plastic scraper (I used the end of a plastic ruler) and
plenty of paper towels. Saturate the adhesive with the WD-40 and it
will become gooey. Gently push the glue along with the plastic scraper
until it makes a gob that's big enough to pick up with your fingers
using the paper towels. You'll need to work one area at a time as the
WD-40 evaporates. When you're done use some cleaner like 409 or windex
to remove the residual WD-40. I've also used WD-40 and the softer paper
towels to very gently remove tape residue from yaw string tape.