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Re: Expoxy drip where I don`t want it!
By:Rehd
Date: 1/17/2000, 11:53 am
In Response To: Re: Expoxy drip where I don`t want it! (Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks)

> Park the car out in the sun on a warm summer day and pick off the drip
> with your finger nail.

Well, there ya go, the perfect chance to go see Erez down in the Glorious state of Florida. Probably the only place you'll find the sun and WARM weather right now. Well, maybe San Diego. The rest of us out in California are getting pelted with our only real rain in months. If you've got a fairly new car, it's probably clear-coated on top of the paint and I understand nothing sticks to that stuff,( don't ask me to pronounce it cause I embarrass myself enough with the things I know ), except bird poop. Tell me...........were you trying to get out on the water immediately after epoxying? Hmmmmmm!! Now, that's love for the sport. O.K., O.K., maybe we shouldn't ask how you dripped epoxy on top of your car. Good luck on getting it off. I trust that wasn't the wife's car, or the yak wood be furnishing kindling for the fireplace.

Rehd

Chances are very good that the epoxy did not bond
> well to the paint if there is any wax on it and the UV from the sun will
> break down the epoxy. Don't try anything radical, your best bet is
> probably patience the glue will come off in its own time. Anything that
> will damage the epoxy before that will also damage your paint.

Messages In This Thread

Expoxy drip where I don`t want it!
eric -- 1/17/2000, 1:36 am
Re: Expoxy drip where I don`t want it!
Ian Johnston -- 1/17/2000, 9:57 pm
Re: Expoxy drip where I don`t want it!
Dale Frolander -- 1/17/2000, 12:54 pm
Re: Expoxy drip where I don`t want it!
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 1/17/2000, 10:35 am
Re: Expoxy drip where I don`t want it!
Rehd -- 1/17/2000, 11:53 am