3M makes an attachment to their Roloc(drill chuck adapter) which consists of several white thin circular plstic floppy type discs.  When spun at drill speed, they stiffen up and youuse this tool like a wire brush attachment to remove the decal...   I believe the name of it is something like 3M  stripe and decal remover.  It is advertised as not hurting painted surfaces..  I personally have not used this product/tool for removing decals, but I have a friend in the body shop business that swears by this tool.  It comes in 4 and 6" diameters and the roloc and the discs are under $15 retail.  I can however vouch for the tools ability to remove contact cement from the botttom of vinyl inside layers of ABS Royalex canoes and polyethylene kayaks without damage(unless you really bear down on the tool and concentrate the buffing action on one area for too long.

The name of this product(Idecided to look it up in rthe catalogue) is Scothbrite Molding adhesive and Stripe Removal disc.  4" disc is part  number07501 and 6" is07502.  4" requires 4000 rpm dril(air powered?)and the 6" is 2800.  I use the 6" due to the large areas of contact cement ai must remove from the canoes.  Hope this helps.

Dimwitted moose and Flying Squirrel  90 GL  Millennium Falcon III  132k
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Kevin Sullivan <ksull@MBARI.ORG>
    To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
    Date: Saturday, May 15, 1999 11:30 AM
    Subject: Removing Stickers, Decals
    
    
    Excuse this message for not being directly Vanagon
    related. It's just that that you're all so good with auto
    problems in general! ;>)
     
    Anyway, how do I remove those lame decals stripes 
    (auto manufactures seem to be using more and more) 
    without doing damage to the paint? Is it just a time 
    consuming chore or is there something I can use to 
    peel it off in seconds?
     
    Thanks in advance,  
     
    Kevin 
    '87 gl syncro westy
     

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