Tips on Removing Plastic Laminate From a Table or Desk
Remove Laminate Push the blade of a wide putty knife under the softened edge. Lift the knife slightly to raise the laminate in one small area at a time, gradually working farther back under the sheet. As the plastic becomes softer, peeling it up requires less effort.
3 Ways to Remove Epoxy - wikiHow
Method 1 Using Heat to Remove Epoxy 1 Put on gloves, goggles, and a respirator with gas and vapor cartridges. When you heat epoxy, it produces vapors that can irritate your eyes, lungs, and mucus membranes. To protect yourself, put on sealed safety goggles and a respirator that can filter out gases and vapors. [1]
Plasticizer Migration? - FineWoodworking
Mist with a little water from a spray bottle helps. Back and forth 2 or 3 times. Wipe it off and see how it looks.--That would be my first approach. It will bring out more shine than originally there, but the damage will hopefully disappear. Perhaps the legs of the desk would be suitable for testing if it's a lacquer finish.
Easily Remove Protective Plastic Film from Stainless Steel!!
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The Craftsman: Table Leaf with Plasticizer Damage - Blogger
Usually the only way to fix plasticizer damage is to completely strip and refinish the table. But before we took that step we tried a less extensive procedure, just in case. In this situation it was enough. We began by removing the top layers of the table's finish where the damage was.
- How do you remove plastic from steel?
- It seems to just loosen the plastic from the steel so that it can be peeled away easier. Start at a corner of the blue, apply a bit of ammonia with a rag and then start peeling. My brother-in-law (who knows everything) stumped. I said I would go check on the net and voila - there was the solution. Thanks all. Wow, I couldn't believe it!
- How do you remove a sheet of plastic?
- Do not use it to try to scrape like a putty knife, use it to stretch the plastic from the center and break the bond at the surface. Once you turn everything bright white, you can peel the sheet off in one piece.
- Do you need to remove plastic coating?
- The companies that sell plastic coated items should have to tell you that you do need to remove the coating right away or post a big warning sign on them about the protective seal. This is over the top annoying & frustrating and I feel like crying. A. I bought a stainless steel dual-fuel range for my wife for about half the price of a new model.
- How do you remove blue plastic from a BBQ door?
- Read this post, found some household ammonia, used it on the blue plastic on the doors to my new BBQ. The blue stuff just peeled right off. It doesn't just dissolve away. It seems to just loosen the plastic from the steel so that it can be peeled away easier. Start at a corner of the blue, apply a bit of ammonia with a rag and then start peeling.
- How do you remove glue from plastic?
- And, the adhesive is probably a water-based acrylic". Fair enough, but their solution involved sand papering the surface to expose the glue. My solution was to attack the plastic with a paint stripper (bad, bad -- but it worked). I used 870 g/L dichloromethane, sold in Oz as Selleys Kwik Strip.
- How do you remove a plastic coating from a wall?
- Use a heat gun ⇦ this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] (mine is a B&D Heat and Strip) and a 1 1/2" putty knife, to heat the plastic coating and gently scrape it off the surface. This is the slow part. Someone else here suggested a blow torch, but I have found that that can damage/distort the surface.
