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Offline neil

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applying decals
« on: February 18, 2012, 10:23 PM »
whats the easiest way to remove and to apply new decals without getting bubbles?

Offline hunterdubber

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Re: applying decals
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2012, 12:02 AM »

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Re: applying decals
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2012, 12:05 AM »
and a hair dryer to remove em  :daumenhoch:

and I use metal poish waddding to remove sticky residue once decal  is off ,,there's probably a better alternative  ::)

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Re: applying decals
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2012, 12:16 AM »
and a hair dryer to remove em  :daumenhoch:

and I use metal poish waddding to remove sticky residue once decal  is off ,,there's probably a better alternative  ::)

X2 - hair dryers better than boiling water if you want to repop em as boiling water makes em stretch when you take them off.

Only thing better than a bit of Brasso wadding for removing residue  is:

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Re: applying decals
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2012, 03:30 PM »
I like the wet method! lol, If you have shaky hands def go this way as you can reposition the decals

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