Chemical based solvents are potentially dangerous to use on painted surfaces, can damage fiberglass, and have numerous health hazards. As tempted as you may be to use some industrial strength solvent, do not use harsh chemicals or abrasives. Getting the vinyl off is only the first step. Maintain a distance of at least a few inches to avoid melting the vinyl or damaging fiberglass beneath, if applicable 2. Keep the heat applied while slowly pulling up and follow the contour of the letter to avoid tearing the vinyl. Pick at an edge enough to pinch the vinyl and start peeling. Warm each letter for 10-20 seconds first. Using a hair dryer set on Hot will make the job much easier. Most lettering will peel up with ease once you get under an edge. After spending much of my previous life in the graphics industry, however, I believe the best tool to remove smaller vinyl letters without damaging the surface below, is your fingernail. Many people recommend using a rotary vinyl eraser to quickly remove vinyl letters and graphics. So, here are those tips I promised for removing vinyl lettering, graphic adhesive and ghost images caused by oxidation… 1. Removal of the graphics reveals the original vehicle color, creating a ghost image of any vinyl that gets removed. This can create a ghosting effect behind any applied graphics. Without getting to technical, exposure to the elements causes oxidation of any vehicle coating. Our first thought was that we shouldn’t show up with our websites and taglines plastered all over it with vinyl letters.īut after seven years on the road, we had to remove more than just the vinyl graphics-which are much easier to put on! The dealer gave us a quote over the phone, with the usual “subject to inspection” disclaimer.
Back to that sticky issue of those graphics… Removing Seven Year Old Vinyl GhostsĪfter doing our homework, and finding our perfect next home office on wheels, we wanted to get the best trade-in value for our old rig. We don’t mean to be so secretive, it’s just that we’ve been pretty busy during this transition-preparing the old rig for trade-in and buying the new one, not to mention certain roadblocks, unexpected upgrades and bit of remodeling I’ll be writing about soon! Suffice it to say, we are pretty damn happy with our new (to us) 2010 Arctic Fox 275B.īut there I go digressing again. But as Rene eluded to in her recent rant about the evolution of our lifestyle, the time had indeed come for another major life upgrade. The first time those words appeared in this blog, we had just sold our sticks and bricks business and not yet even picked up the brand new 2007 Arctic Fox 245N fifth wheel trailer we purchased with plans to travel the country for a year with Jerry.
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I do have some helpful tips to share about how to remove old vinyl lettering off an RV, but first I have to mention why we might take the graphics off our mobile headquarters that have been advertising Team Agreda everywhere we’ve been over the past seven plus years…
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