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Triumph TR6 - DECALS

Hello all, I want to affix the decals on the rear quarters. Any ideas about what to use to remove the wax and polishing compound to prep the area. thanks dave
dgf Finch

Dave,

There is an oil and grease remover that the painters use. It's called Prep-Sol though I'm sure there are generic equivalents.

I've used Prep-Sol with VERY good results for preparing to put striping on (like across the hood of my now, long gone, TR6) and for various other wax and surface oil removal.

I think you'll find this to be just the ticket. Placement, placement, placement. There are actually measurements you can get to make sure you're very close to the 'correct' spot for those stickers.

I've become interested in the use of the word 'decal' (water transfer) in place of the word 'sticker'. I find myself doing it as well. Must be rather like 'dialing' the phone, what? <G>

Jim (still goosed)
Jim Deatsch

The goose lives! I need to get my decals on too, the ones I got for Christmas.

Jim, on "dialing" the phone, when my now 21 year old daughter was about 7 or so, we were at a church fellowship hall and she wanted to make a phone call. I sent her in the kitchen, where I knew there was a phone, and she came out saying, "how do you dial this phone, there's no buttons?". It was a rotary phone and she had never seen one, but she referred to pushing the buttons as dialing. The same kid one time got in a rental car and wanted to know how to "roll down" the window because it didn't have a power switch, only a crank handle. Interesting comment.

Jim
JL Bryan

This doesn't have a thing to do with decals or sticker, but where this thread is going suggests that I can share this story. Perhaps you can relate. A few years ago, I took a group of church youth on an international Habitat for Humanity mission trip to a village in the mountains SW of Mexico City. We were billeted in a small town with a motel like accommodation not too far from our work site. Upon arriving and settlng into the assigned rooms I went about to check on everyone to see if there were any issues. When I asked a couple of young ladies, both now college seniors and quite bright, if they were OK and if they had any problems, the response was...Mr. Baker...the TV does not work...there's no clicker!!:) What have we taught our kids??
db
D R Baker

When we tell younger folk (even those 30 to 40 years old) that when we were kids and we turned on a radio or a TV, we had to wait about a minute or more. All the younger folk ask, "Why did you wait ?". "To let it "warm up". "Why ?"
Don Elliott

I remember when lower case in computing required installation of an 80 column card and non-standard juming on an Apple II Plus.

The older folks remember pen and paper...
D Hasara

D, what about the punch cards we were taught to use to run computer programs with in college. So many years ago!

John
JL Bryan

Analog word processing.

J
Jim Deatsch

For sure this one is older than I....(honest Chris:)
A fella works at a gas station where he pumps gas. Not done by hand anymore.
I would think ordinary rubbing alcohol would work on removing the wax.
Rick C
Rick Crawford

This thread was discussed between 13/05/2004 and 16/05/2004

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