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| A little off topic sorry, sikaflex |
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Keith Inglis
Advanced Member
Username: oslin04
Post Number: 42
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, October 02, 2010 - 01:22 pm: | 
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help please, Some fool has used sikaflex on my sliding windows and it is in the runner locking the lot up, I have scraped as much of it as I can away on the sides, does anyone know of a liquid that will melt or degrade it? so I can move the window and scrape the rest out?
Keith |
Bruce Hall
Senior Member
Username: bruce
Post Number: 237
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, October 02, 2010 - 03:32 pm: |
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Maybe call the manufacturer tech support number?? |
miro forest
Senior Member
Username: miro
Post Number: 492
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, October 02, 2010 - 10:07 pm: |
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Sikaflex is both a bedding compound and an adhesive.
Unfortunately for you, it is a very good adhesive that resists almost anything .
The only means I've used to get things undone, once they have Sikaflex on them is to mechanically cut the stuff. In your case, that's going to be very difficult or perhaps impossible with out damaging the window.
I've never tried heating it - say with a heat gun, but maybe that might soften it enough to let you move it.
Once you move it, you've broken the adhesive bond. It will still need mechanical cleaning, I think before your window will slide easily.
Good luck.
miro |
Keith Inglis
Advanced Member
Username: oslin04
Post Number: 43
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 03, 2010 - 08:10 am: |
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Thanks Bruce and Miro, I dear not use a heat gun on the glass, I think I will try and make up a small cutting tool to run under the window and cut through the Sikaflex but it is going to be a pig to do, once I get it moveing it will be straight forward to clean out.
Keith |
Scott R Barrow
Member
Username: roddy_mcmain
Post Number: 4
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 - 10:52 am: |
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If it is the RTV Silicone type, use isopropyl alchohol, or naptha to turn it into slime. |
Keith Inglis
Advanced Member
Username: oslin04
Post Number: 44
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 - 12:07 pm: |
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Thanks for that Scott, I have as Bruce Hall suggested, got in touch with Sika, and they tell me there is NO solvent for Sikaflex once it is cured, so that line of inquiry is over, I am now making up a set of bent knives to try and cut under the window within the channel as I can not remove the frame because the window is in the way and it is all screwed together, the two sides and the front :-(
Thanks to all for your help
Keith |
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