Re: glue off painted metal

[AKress1948@domain.elided]

Dana, that stuff is nasty.  When I took the headliner off my super, 
admittedly the glue was 30+ years old, but it was tenacious, and often in 
places that were very  hard to access.  Another thing I noticed is that under 
the old factory paint, there were little spiders of rust forming on the 
metal.  The old interior paint is incredible stuff, just can't sand it off - 
by hand or by machine, but it's surface does have little cracks, and moisture 
does get in there over time.   I tried adhesive remover, brake cleaner, etc. 
- - no joy.  I tried sanding - with a disk sander, and it made some progress, 
but I couldn't get into all the crooks and nannys, and it wouldn't leave a 
surface you'd want to paint over.  In the end I used a chemical stripper, 
brought the overhead to bare metal, and cleaned, rinsed, and repeated a bunch 
of times to make sure the metal surface was clean.  Sanded again, then 
painted the whole thing.  Actually came out very well.  Any way you do it, 
it's a giant, back busting pain in the whaddya callit.  Be patient, and good 
luck.

Andy

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