Help removing CA from plastic canopy!!
 

Hello,
I just installed a new canopy for my jet.. got some ca glue droplets from my hand on the outside of this brand new canopy!!! I tried a very little nail polish to remove but didnt work.. is there any suggestions? i need something to remove the dried CA from plastic without harming or fogging up the plastic... thanks for all your responds!! Hope someone can help me!!!

:(:(:(RazOR[:'(][:'(]

RE: Help removing CA from plastic canopy!!
 

I have used Monokote trim solvent with a Q-Tip. You have to be very carefull as to the trim solvent will eat away at your canopy. Have your self a damp rag to clean the area after swabing with the solvent.

I am sure some one else will chime in here and have a better sugestion. Hang on, they are coming.:)

RE: Help removing CA from plastic canopy!!
 

FYI ive tried nail polish remover (very little) already did do noting.. looked like it was working.. 1 minute later it was back.. (didnt fogg up, thank god) i tried laquar thinner on a scrap piece of canopy plastic.. and just made the plastic foggy.. arghhh.. all this effort to make the perfect canopy and i blew it in the final lap...[:@]

thanks for the advice.. hope someone got a solution that wont harm canopy plastic..

:eek:RazOr

RE: Help removing CA from plastic canopy!!
 

paint the canopy black or throw it away and get a new one


Johnny Hernandez

RE: Help removing CA from plastic canopy!!
 

Here's the only two methods I know how to do.

Method A.

1. Wet sand the canopy with progressivly fine grades of paper. Start with some 600, then drop down to 1200, then 1200, 1500 and finally 2000 grit. This should remove all of the CA adhesive from the surface of the canopy, but render the canopy opaque, with very fine scratches.

2. Spray paint the canopy with any of these PPG clears....DAU 82, DCU 2020, DCU 2021 or DCU 2042. I have used these, and they work fine. There are certainly others, but I won't recommend them unless I have used them. Use adequate thinner, so the material really flows out. When dry, the canopy will be crystal clear.

Method B.

1. Sand the canopy down as outlined above.

2. Locate some Petit Paint Co. "Hobbypoxy" thinner. This might be hard to find, but maybe somebody out there reading this has
some stashed away to sell you. Maybe the Petit Paint Co. has a website.

3. Using the widest and softest Canmelhair paint brush you can find, flow coat a coat of the thinner onto the surface of the canopy.
DON'T daube or brush the thinner over any area more than once. Brush in one direction only. Fore to aft is what I have done in
the past. The thinner evaporates quickly, so you have to work fast. When the thinner flashes off, the canopy will be crystal clear.

Practice on a scrap canopy first with either method, so you don't goof up the real one.

Left to do either method again, I would opt for the clear paint job. It takes longer, but it is more controllable.

Hope this helps.....Good luck

Harley Condra
BVM REP
Team JetCat

RE: Help removing CA from plastic canopy!!
 

Wet sand the whole canopy with 600 grit, then clean it and spray it with a light coat of clear ( I use PPG 2021) wet sand again with 1500, then 2000, and 2500. Polish it out with rubbing compounds.

Alternately Micro Mark sells a set of polishing sandpaper that goes up to 12000 grit it works very well, the above method has just been easier for me in the past.

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RE: Help removing CA from plastic canopy!!
 

Acetone will cut CA, but check to see if it eats the canopy because some plastics it attacks too. Otherwise the sand and clear with high quality clear will be the last resort.

RE: Help removing CA from plastic canopy!!
 

Try using CA remover sparingly, then coat the canopy with Future floor wax.

Whatsup Harley? Taint seen ya around for awhile.

Paul Reese

RE: Help removing CA from plastic canopy!!
 

NO! CA remover trashed my t-34 canopy!!!!!! No good for plastics

RE: Help removing CA from plastic canopy!!
 

Your getting some good advice here, but IMHO you will probabaly ruin your canopy if you try to dissolve the CA with anything.

As a couple of the pro builders said, you gotta sand it off.

The only thing I would add, is to use a small (3/4 x3/4 inch) block of hard maple, as a little sanding block. Get right over that drop and with fairly light pressure, wet sand it off. If you press too hard you will raise the CA bump by pushing it down while sanding.

After than you will have to go up to about 2000 grit before you clear it. This can be done locally, right over the spot but of course the clear will need to go over the whole canopy. I am not sure if the polishing technique David is describing can be done in one spot as I have never tried it, but I have definitely done what Harley is describing.

Good luck.

RE: Help removing CA from plastic canopy!!
 

Guys, the best way is to use glow fuel. Soak a paper towel with fresh glow fuel and let it soak for 15 minutes or so. The higher the nitro content the faster it will work. Glow fuel will not harm the canopy at all, monokote is safe to use it on also. You will wipe the glue drop off and never have known that it was there. Nitro disolves CA. Loctite makes a product called XNMS clean up solvent, it is 99% nitro. It is used to clean loctite off from threads and the such. Try this, it will surprise you.

RE: Help removing CA from plastic canopy!!
 

thanks everyone for the tips!!!

-Razor[8D]

RE: Help removing CA from plastic canopy!!
 

Awesome tip, I would love to try it.

RE: Help removing CA from plastic canopy!!
 

Check the Glow fuel on an inconspicous part of the canopy. Some are made out of a plastic that glow fuel WILL cloud up. I used to have to clear coat all my canopys (Inside and out with Imron clear) for the BYron F-16s. Always leaked fuel into the canopy when upside down for starting. It would cloud one up in a New York Minute!!