Don,
Is all the exposure to toxic solvents (acetone is a brain-cell killer) worth it?
I would much rather see you put unabashedly "new" and off-topic tires on your classic bikes (a quite allowable and sanctioned practice in this community) and stay around (and in possession of all your faculties) a while longer.
I have used acetone and xylene (similarly nasty) more than I should have, and deeply regret it. (And not just for the roaring headaches I got from using them.)
Yours for a more solvent-free cranium,
Jon Spangler who still has nasty, toxic solvents in his garage in Alameda, CA USA but tries like h*** to not use them...
On Oct 29, 2009, at 1:00 PM, <classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org>
wrote:
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:25:45 -0700
> From: donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>
> Subject: Re: [CR] How in the heck do you remove those garish sidewall
> logos??
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Message-ID: <20091029192545.4C9C819D8D@ug6.ece.ubc.ca>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> Rather than waste time debating whether something is off-topic, I
> will answer the question and then raise an on-topic question.
>
> 1. To remove sidewall logos, I find that acetone will dissolve just
> about anything. Be careful to apply masking tape around the logo
> to avoid removing unnecessary sidewall material !!
>
> Now for an on-topic question :
>
> 2. I would like to take a modern tire, remove the logos, and affix a
> vintage logo where the original logos originally appeared. Is
> there some material that I can use which can be made to stick to
> the sidewalls of a bicycle tire? Or does it have to be basically
> vulcanized to the tire at the manufacturing time?
>
> ====
>
> Anyone done this ??
>
> - Don Gillies
> San Diego, CA, uSA
>
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