removing adhesive

[LVZ2881]

I have a couple kits that I masked off some areas and the tape left some stubborn adhesive. I have tried dawn, 70% alcohol and nail polish remover with no luck, any ideas?

I t was really weird as tamiya tape left a pattern in the paint so that I could see where each seperate peice of tape was.

The body sat in a dehydrator for 8 hours then gassed out for over a week. Is it possible that being in the dehydrator with the tape on caused this?

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  LVZ2881 said:

I have a couple kits that I masked off some areas and the tape left some stubborn adhesive. I have tried dawn, 70% alcohol and nail polish remover with no luck, any ideas?

I t was really weird as tamiya tape left a pattern in the paint so that I could see where each seperate peice of tape was.

The body sat in a dehydrator for 8 hours then gassed out for over a week. Is it possible that being in the dehydrator with the tape on caused this?

1. It's the pattern of the tape that's etched into the surface of the paint, not adhesive residue.

2. Yes, the damage is definitely there because you left the tape in place when you put it in the dehydrator. The tape traps solvents underneath from gassing out, if you apply it over paint that is not thoroughly cured this will happen regardless if you use a dehydrator or not. Masking tape should only stay on long enough to mask, shoot new paint and let the paint flash off. Remove it ASAP, I generally remove it within 10 minutes of the last coat of paint, because I don't want any potential problems.

If you have enough paint applied you might be able to wetsand and polish out the tape damage. If you had let the base color cure for a week in the dehydrator before masking, and applied the new mask and new paint and removed the masking tape right after the second color, you wouldn't have had this problem.

[roadhawg]

Just out of curiosity, what IS the best way to remove Tamiya tape residue? Its the best stuff in the world for masking, but it DOES leave some residue behind. Goo-Gone works for BMF residue, but it doesn't do much for this.

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In my experience Tamiya tape had never left any residue, what looks like residue is a pattern in the paint left behind from the tape itself that's etched in the paint. That's why adhesive removers aren't working because the only way to remove the pattern is to cut into the paint by polishing it. Read my explanation above why this happens (it can happen regardless of whether it was dehydrated).

If by chance there is any sticky adhesive residue left over, which I highly doubt due to how the Tamiya tape is made (and how often I've used it with different kinds of paint-never any adhesive left behind, but often the telltale signs that I masked too soon and the paint needs to be polished out again to remove the etching), it should polish off with Novus, or any similar polish. That's what I've done whenever I used a cheaper kind of masking tape that did leave residue, or an old sheet of BMF that leaves behind some adhesive residue.

[roadhawg]

  Zoom Zoom said:

If by chance there is any sticky adhesive residue left over, which I highly doubt due to how the Tamiya tape is made (and how often I've used it with different kinds of paint-never any adhesive left behind, but often the telltale signs that I masked too soon and the paint needs to be polished out again to remove the etching), it should polish off with Novus, or any similar polish. That's what I've done whenever I used a cheaper kind of masking tape that did leave residue, or an old sheet of BMF that leaves behind some adhesive residue.

The model in question is a helicopter, and I used Tamiya tape to mask the windows. Maybe the tape reacted with the coat of future that was on the windows, who knows, but yep, Novus #2 seemed to clear it right up. Thanks!

[Guest Gramps-xrds]

If in fact, it is adhesive you're dealing w/, when I was lettering a lot of pull trucks, I used contact paper as a mask and it almost always left adhesive behind for me to remove. What I used was mineral spirits on a rag w/ talc sprinkled on top of it. The thinner disolved the goo and the talc kept it from smearing and sticking back on the painted surface. Worked great for me.