Tape to Remove Upholstery Adhesive
Mark SimpsonWhen completing any classic car upholstery project or simply making small repairs, it is possible to get upholstery adhesive in places you don’t want it. Using solvents to clean upholstery adhesive can sometimes lead to further spreading it out or damaging the finish on your upholstery. Here’s a quick tip to make cleanups easy and with less risk.
When doing upholstery on your car, whether you're building door panels or working on seats or headliners, eventually you're gonna get some upholstery adhesive somewhere on your vinyl or on your leather or even fabric. And what you want to avoid doing is grabbing some solvent or some lacquer thinner or some enamel thinner and rubbing that off. What had happened in a lot of cases, it will just kind of smear it around. If it gets into your threads and stuff, then you've got to, you know, it'll be a real pain to try to get that out of there. So what I like to do is just take some, you know, good, strong tape and roll it back over itself, so you end up with kind of a loop to grab hold of it.
And here we have some glue that's on the vinyl here and with very little effort, we've removed all of the glue and we're ready to proceed.
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