From: <TYLERBEARS@aol.com>
To: <vintage@airstream.net>
Subject: Re: Re: [VAC] Stickers
Date: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 3:45 PM

Steve's stickers may be removable with the old flat iron trick on topof a wet
towel. The zone between when the sticker can be lifted successfully
(fingernails pulling carefully along successive portions where thesticky part
hasn't yet lifted) and where the plugged-in flat iron will mar thealuminum
surface is a small one. The younger the stickers, the more successfulthis
method will be - and the quicker the results will occur.

With older stickers, sometimes it has taken me a dozen rewettings ofthe towel
(and waiting while the flat iron heats it up again) just to releasesmall
portions of the sticker without breaking off the part I'm pulling on.Of
course, when it does break, that means starting all over again to findanother
portion to lift and trying not to break it off right away. Can a sticker
challenge your patience?

After doing this several times (I consider it to be the hard way, butlack of
knowing a better way, it's what I've been doing) the job is now onlybegun
when I've positioned the Airstream so neighbors can't see what I'mdoing and
come over to supervise, when the telephone answering machine is activatedand
really is working, when my honey is engrossed in a good book, whenthe dog has
been fed and is napping and when I really feel like spending a houror so at
full concentration being extremely fussy (almost to the point of beinga
compulsive perfectionist).

In spite of my best efforts on one of our Airstreams, I still have residual
glue marks on the aluminum that defy me. Knowing that I could easilymake them
worse by going after them with a tough approach, they are patientlywaiting
until an inspiring "Ahh Haa!" occurs. Then, I'll try again.

Having said all this over the net, I'd be delighted if someone camealong with
a simple sure-fire procedure. None of us knows everything but a littlehere
and a little there from a few of us may provide just enough insightfor one of
us to experience a job well done - today.

Have fun - Terry
1967 Safari 22'