THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT YOU JUST DON'T WANT TO DO
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How DO YOU REMOVE hi-tech sound deadening material?
JimGnitecki Wrench Fetcher Registered: 05 December, 2007 Posts: 155 Loc: Texas
''''' The previous owner of my truck applied a sound deadening product, similar to, but not the brand name "Dynamat Xtreme". This is the material that has a foil aluminum facing backed by a sticky 1/16" or so thick black layer that seld adheres to any metal floor, door inside, cab back, firewall, etc that you apply it to.
Now that I am stripping everything off to facilitate repainting, this material is a big problem, as it does not want to come off the metal surfaces to which it was applied.
I am able to pull MOST of it off using lots of muscle, supported at key "sticky points" by a putty knife, but it has been a bear of a job. I am down to just a few fragments, some of which still have the metal facing on them, and some that have only the gooey black residue.
I checked the Dynmat website, thinking they might have posted in their FAQ how you remove this stuff when necessary, but they did not.
I tried a bit of heat from a good, controllable heat gun, but while it helped in a few cases, in more cases it enocuraged the black compound to simply begin softening and sticking harder.
I have not tried solvent yet, as I don't want solvent residue leaking down into crevices, from which it could emerge during painting.
Has anyone out there had any experience removing this stuff? What is the easiest and least-residue-left method?
By the way, this stuff weighs about half a pound per square feet, and I figure I removed about 40 to 45 square feet of it - the trash bag was heavy! '''''
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