Removing glue/sealant from a cloth seat?

[avst03]

Well this material goes on the nasty list of stuff to remove from car upholstery.

I work in the aviation industry we use a two part polysulfide sealer (Pro-Seal) this sealer is on the lower part of the cloth seat on my 2005 Honda CRV EX.

Before I order a new factory cover I would like to try and remove this sealant.

Any ideas on removing this material in the car or by removing the seat and pulling the covering.

Thanks

Mike...

 

[C. Charles Hahn]

Two things you can try:

1) Use a citrus based cleaner like Goof-Off. Apply it to a rag and dab at the sealant to see if it breaks it up and removes it.

2) Try treating it like chewing gum and use the old "freeze it off" approach. Take a can of compressed air, flip it upside down, and spray the area down to flash-freeze it. Then take something like a plastic scraper or even a flat screwdriver and see if the sealant will separate from the cloth fibers.

Of course, follow either of these with traditional upholstery cleaning methods to remove any residues left behind.

 

[Beemerboy]

Well this material goes on the nasty list of stuff to remove from car upholstery.

I work in the aviation industry we use a two part polysulfide sealer (Pro-Seal) this sealer is on the lower part of the cloth seat on my 2005 Honda CRV EX.

Before I order a new factory cover I would like to try and remove this sealant.

Any ideas on removing this material in the car or by removing the seat and pulling the covering.

Thanks

Mike...

Mike,

How much is on the seat, small spots or a bigger area? My guess and its only a guess not understand the composite makeup of what this sealant really is, would be to try Acetone. I've used this with great success removing glue from material, then had to clean up the acetone but that's just with APC and water.

 

[Beemerboy]

Two things you can try:

1) Use a citrus based cleaner like Goof-Off. Apply it to a rag and dab at the sealant to see if it breaks it up and removes it.

2) Try treating it like chewing gum and use the old "freeze it off" approach. Take a can of compressed air, flip it upside down, and spray the area down to flash-freeze it. Then take something like a plastic scraper or even a flat screwdriver and see if the sealant will separate from the cloth fibers.

Of course, follow either of these with traditional upholstery cleaning methods to remove any residues left behind.

The freeze method works but in my case it also pulls up quite a bit of the nap in the material. The Goof-Off or something that dissolves the glue would be better IMO

 

[avst03]

The spot that is covered is about 1 1/4".

Will acetone damage the foam in the seat?
We use MEK on this sealant to clean up and remove partially cured sealant it works on fully cured but you have to work on it.

Is there a gel version of the citrus based GOOF-OFF?

Thanks for the replies!

Mike...

 

[Beemerboy]

The spot that is covered is about 1 1/4".

Will acetone damage the foam in the seat?
We use MEK on this sealant to clean up and remove partially cured sealant it works on fully cured but you have to work on it.

Is there a gel version of the citrus based GOOF-OFF?

Thanks for the replies!

Mike...

The way I use it on material is with a q-tip and lightly dab the areas letting the glue dissolve. There is not that much that it soaks into the foam at least not enough to do any damage. I used Acetone to remove the glue from those safety sticks on the sun visor and it didn't hurt that or the foam at all.