[l008com]

I just pulled the plate off our old family boat's trailer. This plate should have 30 years worth of registration stickers on it. (the "16", going all the way back to about "87" or so). I'm probably going to get the new plate since this one is so beat up. And of course that will come with a new sticker. BUT for old-times sake, I'm wondering if theres any way I might be able to dissolve the glue, but not the stickers, on this plate? It would be pretty neat to get them all off and separate! The glue on these things is pretty permanent though, and the stickers quickly get nice and brittle. But maybe theres something I can soak the plate in? I'm getting a new one so I could soak this one as long as needed.

 

[paintdrying]

no. They are made to fall apart. you would want low heat for a long time. Good luck

 

[beenthere]

Or some dry ice to hold up against them. Wearing gloves, or using tongs of course.

 

[Fix'n it]

no. They are made to fall apart.

this ^ . if you want nostalgia = leave it alone.

 

[ukrkoz]

I'd take heat gun and dental floss to them. Heat plasticizes glue and dental floss works as a saw to slide behind the glue surface. Works on other things glued onto cars, like model names, etc.

 

[de-nagorg]

I have removed old stickers on plates with WD-40, of course I never left 30 years on there, As pointed out they might be so brittle that they disintegrate.


Goof off might work also


ED

 

[Fix'n it]

the ones here in IL, they are perforated. get a corner up, and only a part of the sticker comes offf. prevents theft.