Re: [CR]removing license tags

In a message dated 6/1/05 12:02:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time, classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org writes:
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> Here's one for the group. Has anyone here come up with a
> good way to remove old stick-on license tags? Now I have
> two fine steeds that have these things on them, and I'd
> really like to get them off. Short of picking them off, one
> tiny piece at a time, with my fingernails, anyone have a
> better idea?
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> Thanks.
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> Charles Andrews
> SoCal
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I was able to get a couple old tags off my 1974 Jack Taylor with a hair dryer and a plastic scraper. Take a look at the before and after pics at http://www.blackbirdsf.org/taylor/6734.html There was one on the back of the head tube and one on the upper down tube below the double cable stop. Came off clean as a whistle with no paint damage. DON'T use a heat gun though. That gets hot enough to strip the paint off.

Bob Freeman
Seattle