HELP ME!!! Rat Fur Removal Advice Needed

[TheReceder]

Everyone is ignoring the obvious.

It's rat fur. Find a cat to lick it off.

If that fails... the second most obvious... a flamethrower.

 

[JRA]

I Would seriously consider the Herculiner Bed liner stuff. You roll it on like paint and it is tough stuff. Looks good too.

 

[Kmonk]

I removed rat fur from two GK cabs using a razor knife, heat gun and a paint scraper. Then I used Goo Gone to remove most of the adhesive, then sanded them. It took a couple of hours per cab. I refinished both cabs with Duplicolor Truck Bed Liner. They came out great.

 

[arbiterusa]

Jasco paint stripper and a bunch of plastic scrapers. WEAR A MASK AND GOGGLES AND THICK NEOPRENE GLOVES. It’s from hell and feels like bee stings/being set on fire when it gets on your bare skin. Even tiny droplets. Eye protection not optional. That being said, it will get it off. And you will never try something like this again. I know from experience, lol.

 

[LYNCHMAN]

Use a torch to burn the fur and melt the glue...then scrape with a dull 4" scraper

 

[dab12ax7ef]

Disasterous. The fabric pretty much disintegrated leaving nasty pulled furry patches all over the surface looking worse than Sydney Crosby’s “beard”

This made me LOL. Sorry bout your Phlyers.

 

[funkinbottom]

try some paint stripper - worked on the residue left on a cabinet I refurbished a while back

An aggressive remover like Aircraft Stripper should cut that glue no problem. Then a good sanding. Personally, I finish with Duratex. Great product an made for cabs. The roller grade works great, and cleans up with water.

 

[beans-on-toast]

No question that this is a tough job. It looks like the worst is over on your cab.

When the paper gums up, change it as often as you need to. The adhesive is coming off. It’s the cost of doing this type of work.

You have to remove the adhesive. If you don’t the bondo will eventually fail.

 

[snarebear]

That cabs fur looks like my girlfriend when she doesn't shave for awhile. Goo gone ought to remove it.

 

[ColonelZulu]

This made me LOL. Sorry bout your Phlyers.

Can’t stand Philly

 

[ColonelZulu]

Sentinel 747 gets lots of recommendations

 

[singlemalt]

I’d hit it with a belt sander an 40-60 grit. There are rubber sticks you can use to clear the crap out of the sanding belts.

You’ll get it, just keep on keeping on.

 

[zoonose]

That cabs fur looks like my girlfriend when she doesn't shave for awhile. Goo gone ought to remove it.

Does that work for your girl?

 

[FenderB]

Laminate it with some underlayment.

 

[madbass6]

View attachment 3007939 View attachment 3007940 View attachment 3007941 View attachment 3007942 View attachment 3007943 This week, I jumped into a project to refinish my rat-fur covered Epifani Cabinets. I started with the 410 as it was pretty gnarled, pilled, and torn.

I thought I had all I needed. From what I read, you can generally pull it off with a heat gun for assistance and a plaster knife.

Disasterous. The fabric pretty much disintegrated leaving nasty pulled furry patches all over the surface looking worse than Sydney Crosby’s “beard”

I tried a razor scraper. That tended to gauge wood and get gummed up. I tried a couple of solvents. They both worked at losening the glue, but it ended up just turning the cabinet surface into a gooey layer of black swampy hairy stickiness.

I tried a rotary palm sander. It ended up melting the fabric-glue mix, hardening it in swirls all over the cabinet. I could not sand through it because it quickly gummed up even 80-grit sandpaper pads.

I may have to sand blast it.

Seriously, if I don’t get a real solution to this, I’m going to try wood bondo all over the surface and just sand it smooth and laying the tolex over that.

I’ll probably send my other cabinet out for the professionals.

Any advice, in the meantime, is greatly appreciated.

it's probably alot easier to just give in and buy a new/ used replacement cab of the same brand or not! Good luck ..
all I can say to that sh*t show is,
better you then me!

 

[J-Bassomatic]

One pass and cloggedView attachment 3008085

WOW

 

[Thumpin6string]

try some paint stripper - worked on the residue left on a cabinet I refurbished a while back

Sanding won't work. I'd try the spray orange based stripper or Goo Gone first. If they don't work, you can get some Aircraft stripper at an automotive paint store. You could also try this Klean-Strip 128 oz. Adhesive Remover-GKAS94325 - The Home Depot

 

[Oren Hudson]

I Would seriously consider the Herculiner Bed liner stuff. You roll it on like paint and it is tough stuff. Looks good too.

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Any advice, in the meantime, is greatly appreciated.

Do the belt sander with super course (36 grit) paper. I literally did the same job on a fridge last weekend. I did all of the stuff you did with similar results. The 36 grit did the trick in a fairly short time. Started the tolex today.

 

[fhm555]

First, you need a real heat gun, something that will get that crap flowing, then a dull scraper. Work the heat just ahead of the scraper and no faster than it takes to get it to peel up in sheets as wide as your scraper. I’ve used a leftover sheet metal back from a Radio Shack project box to scrape some goop like that to avoid gouging the wood since it had rolled edges and radiused corners. It is a major time consuming PITA, but it’s not like it’s your new job so just bite the bullet and heat and scrape heat and scrape.

 

[TJBass]

Try this, spray a small section with flat black primer, let dry real good, then use the orbital sander.