T&T: Boat Letters Removal

[Bob Clinkenbeard]

You don't have to heat up the letters anymore than the boat would be....in a 
day of hot sun...to peel them off.  You only need to get it just a little 
hotter than you can touch to soften the adhesive.  A hair dryer works just 
as well as a heat gun.  This is really not a hard or complex job to do...my 
30 year old daughter does it everyday.  I have helped her many times, 
peeling vinyl from various signs and vehicles.  Never has there been any 
damage from doing this.  KISS is the

Bob Clinkenbeard
24' custom trailer trawler "Bobbin Along"
Locust Grove, Georgia
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-aboardbobbinalong


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Rogers" <rcrogers6 at kennett.net>
To: <trawlers-and-trawlering at lists.samurai.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: T&T: Boat Letters Removal


> The key to his question is that the vinyl letters are affixed to AWLGRIP. 
> I
> would think that US Paint, the Awlgrip manufacturer might be the best 
> source
> of info. Remember, this is the paint that you weren't supposed to wash 
> with
> soap (although I successfully used Joy and Dawn dishwashing soap.) Now US
> Paint has come out with their own cleaner.
>
> The key is removing the letters without damaging the paint!
>
> Ron Rogers