Anyone who's painted much stuff will have found out the hard way that even the slightest bit of silicone on the surface of a vehicle will 100% completely ruin the paint job. Even someone spraying some flash dash 5 miles away will ruin your day.
So my van is in a thousand pieces at the moment for a "tart up" which turned into a full on bare shell resto. On ripping all the interior out, I was reminded about the fact that at some point someone has pump about 5 tubes of silicone sealer all over the inside - it's been used to hold the floor down, sides on and seemingly just randomly squeezed into gaps - it's fuggin everywhere.
Now, if it was anything else I would just hit it with a wire wheel or stripit disk on the grinder, but I don't want to send it floating all over the place. I've used that silicon sealer remover stuff in the past and found it to be completely useless, and no reasonable amount of heat or thinners seems to phase it.
My backup plan is to scrape it back as much as I can with a razor blade with a hoover inches away then try that curse word silicon sealer remover stuff to dissolve it, but surely there is a better way? Help!
So my van is in a thousand pieces at the moment for a "tart up" which turned into a full on bare shell resto. On ripping all the interior out, I was reminded about the fact that at some point someone has pump about 5 tubes of silicone sealer all over the inside - it's been used to hold the floor down, sides on and seemingly just randomly squeezed into gaps - it's fuggin everywhere.
Now, if it was anything else I would just hit it with a wire wheel or stripit disk on the grinder, but I don't want to send it floating all over the place. I've used that silicon sealer remover stuff in the past and found it to be completely useless, and no reasonable amount of heat or thinners seems to phase it.
My backup plan is to scrape it back as much as I can with a razor blade with a hoover inches away then try that curse word silicon sealer remover stuff to dissolve it, but surely there is a better way? Help!
