cant get it off...

[jhendo14]

I recently parked in a covered garage in new york city and something bad has dripped on my hood. some of it seemed to wash off, but a good amount of it has stayed. I think they might have been doing cement work on the level above and some ran off. whatever it is its really smooth and dull gray in color. I'm not sure i can take it out myself, so i was about to give it to a shop to take care of. any ideas?

[travisdecpn]

Clay may work, if it's cement i am not really sure.

[Mike Phillips]

Boy if ever a picture would help out this would be the time...

Is it like a coating or layer of glue? or paint? Perhaps some time of epoxy substance? Or is more like a film? Or, is it a stain in the paint?

Mike

[Mayur]

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Boy if ever a picture would help out this would be the time...

Is it like a coating or layer of glue? or paint? Perhaps some time of epoxy substance? Or is more like a film? Or, is it a stain in the paint?

Mike

I have epoxy on my paint. Ive searched the forums and Ive read clay bar. Im gonna try out the clay bar on monday when I get the time. Anyone else get epoxy off their paint without damaging it? If so how?

[jfelbab]

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If it is a concrete residue try wetting a MF with vinegar and soaking the area for a half hour and see if it dissolves.

[Mayur]

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Its hard as rock. My old body man used epoxy to stick emblems back on. Ill try to dissolve them with vinegar. If not then Ill take a clay bar and try to work it out.

[Mayur]

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Tried the vinegar. Tried the clay bar. Still wont come off. Any other solutions? Will I have to get a body shop to fix it for me?

[amari]

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Boy if ever a picture would help out this would be the time...
Mike

Tried the vinegar. Tried the clay bar. Still wont come off. Any other solutions? Will I have to get a body shop to fix it for me?

[Mike Phillips]

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I have epoxy on my paint. Ive searched the forums and Ive read clay bar. Im gonna try out the clay bar on monday when I get the time. Anyone else get epoxy off their paint without damaging it? If so how?

The nature of epoxy glue is to stick and stick well. It's not going to come off without a fight and just about anything you do that's powerful enough to remove the epoxy glue is going to be powerful enough to harm the underlying paint.

We recently removed epoxy glue from a Pedal Car using a heat gun but we had to be very careful not to overheat the auto paint at the same time. After we were through we then had etchings in the paint by the epoxy glue that we had to sand out and then remove the sanding marks.

This might work for you but here's a warning, this work was very hard and had to be done very delicately, success will require a lot of focused energy and skill.

Best thing about the Pedal Car was it appeared to have a lot of paint on it and thus a lot of film-build to work with.

The below is taken from this thread,

Open Class for Members of Meguiar's Online! - November 4th, 2006!

Mark Cummins brought the Pedal Car he drove as a little boy to Meguiar's Garage for some repair and then polishing. It has been restored and repainted using an Imron paint, (leftover from an Airplane Project), and it's a wonderful example of a classic pedal car except right out in the front, middle of the hood were some splotches of Epoxy Glue that had somehow landed and then bonded to the paint.

Mark brought the Pedal Car to a previous "Open Garage" and we threw everything in the book at it but to no avail. It was recommended that he try using a heat gun to carefully heat the Epoxy Glue and then chip or scrape it off after it was heated, but to do this in a way that the paint wasn't overheated and altered.

So... Mark brings his trusty, but dusty heat gun and we give it try and with a little heat and a little scraping with our thumbnail we get the epoxy glue off the paint. The Epoxy glue did however leave sub-surface imprints in the paint so to remove these we wet-sanded the paint down using some #2000 Nikken Finishing papers and then removed our sanding marks to restore a beautiful, glue-free finish!

Thank you Mark for bringing us your family heirloom to work on...

[Jeepster04]

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Sry for OT, but this is the best pic Ive ever seen.



BIG FORD TRUCK, little red car..

[Mayur]

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Ill try and get a pic. Thanks for the info Mike. Ill see what I can do.