Umm, what stoneburner said. Put a paper towel on top of the persistent stickum and douse it with the solvent, let it work for a bit before attacking the hopefully gooey adhesive with a scrub pad.
Also, heat might soften it some, say rags dunked in steaming water, see if you can scrape it up with a fingernail after that.
There is a purple industrial degreaser on the market, they use it well diluted for cleaning auto parts. I have used it for cleaning boat bilges with horrible crud in them. It will dissolve just about anything petrochemical this side of cured resin, I think Walmart carries it or something similar, as do auto parts stores or your local garage might give you a little
Worst case, paint remover. Though before I tried that, I think I’d try going at it with a single-edge razor, accept there are gonna be some scratches and polish after.
Jim Beam, or ether - a nice whiskey sour is always welcome, ether if you slice yourself with the razor blade.
To remove those glue I use essence F or eau oxygénée, both French name products. Good dissolvant for glue that don’t eat cured resin. First onecdissolve wax realy well. Second one is multipurpose, used to clean shirts, change hair color, clean swimming pool water, erase wall grafitti, take off glue…
…if you are not in a hurry, the idea is to soften the glue then the removing is easy; for that you use MEKP and monomere styrene. The trick is to put on top of the glue first the MEKP, let it for while then do the same with the monomere. Repeat with the monomere more than one time. The glue would peel off and the surface is not damaged. Is not a fast method.
And a happy new year to you too, Ambrose. Hope all’s well with you and yours.And thank you for the kind ( and undeserved) words.
Funny- these days I find myself doing a lot of things remotely, but on Sways, it’s always been like that. Otherwise, I’m the sort to drop by with a jug of oddball boatyard solvent and a strange tool or three and have at it. Just my nature. Love getting my hands dirty, frustrating when I can’t so much as I’d like.
I wish I could have given you a better steer on exactly what solvents, but there’s no good information I could look up on just what sort of stickum they use on Brand A pads, or Brand B, or… so I had to go a bit generic, what I’ve used on various stuck-on things over the years. Truly, on a real smooth surface like a surboard deck, if the stuff isn’t rock hard ( if somebody used an epoxy to restick one, say) I have found that the razor blade is about the best, any crumbs that are left come off with a scrub pad.
But, and on another hand- while we’re all waiting for a sensei, we need to learn some on our own, hopefully that’ll let us know when the real sensei shows up. She’ll probably be on a motorcycle… just to perplex us, in a Zen kind of way.
Excellent.That’s the stuff I was trying to recall. And the nasty-nasty rated gloves are also the right thing, lest you have issues later on, like being unable to remember names.
When it comes to scraping adhesives off surfboards (and other stuff you don’t want to cut into ) I use these plastic blades. Sharp enough to do the work but not sharp enough to cut into the surface.