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Silicone Removal from windows
- Thread starter RideIt
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Drivewaysonly provided some fine advice using 0000 steel wool. I've never tried using the wool dry, but I don't see how it could hurt. It would most def. make the wool last longer because it won't rust as quickly. I havnt tried the non-rusting bronze still wool, yet. I think Titan Labs, the maker of GG4, makes a product called Oil Flo, which should work well in removing silicon. Other then that, a scraper will be your best bet, along with your regular cleaning solution. Be careful.
drivewaysonly
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Oil flow doesnt do much for silicon...however, there is a new product out that eats it up. it is call dicone nc9 and is 78 bucks a gallon. I have not tried it...I see no need.
I have found that most of the time, silicon is a smear somewhere on the glass where the glazer touched the pane with his silicon dirtied finer (s). That will come off with a dry 0000 wool pad. LIGHTLY rub the silicon w/wool...
On larger silicon deposits, I slide a new blade under the "bead" and it peals right off. Some times, the latex glue used to help glaze panes to the plastic insert that create the look of a french window has dried and there is more of the "glue" on the pane than is needed and is ugly. that will rub off once the bead has been cut close to the pane w/blade.
I have found that most of the time, silicon is a smear somewhere on the glass where the glazer touched the pane with his silicon dirtied finer (s). That will come off with a dry 0000 wool pad. LIGHTLY rub the silicon w/wool...
On larger silicon deposits, I slide a new blade under the "bead" and it peals right off. Some times, the latex glue used to help glaze panes to the plastic insert that create the look of a french window has dried and there is more of the "glue" on the pane than is needed and is ugly. that will rub off once the bead has been cut close to the pane w/blade.
windowmate
New Member
0000 steel wool and sometimes I use a dry hulk towel to touch up any spots missed.RideIt said:What's the best way to do this??
drivewaysonly
New Member
I wanted to update my method for heavey silicon. In a response a few months back I mentioned Dicone NC-9...this product is awesome but expensive. Recently druing a big window CCU job, the glazers had touched every pane with silicon-sticky fingers leaving bazillions of deposits on every pane.....sigh.
I had bought one gallon of the NC-9 to try....this stuff is friggin great.
If you do CCU windows...try it.
I had bought one gallon of the NC-9 to try....this stuff is friggin great.
If you do CCU windows...try it.
windowmonkey
New Member
unger
unger rub out works great for paint,sil
unger rub out works great for paint,sil