How to CLEAN N.O.S. Fan Shroud ?????

[CamarosRus]

Rat Pack and others, Last night,before I read your bronze wool post, I started working on ANOTHER less valuble good used small block 70 shroud. I took some well worn GRAY scotchbrite and the FRP(??) graphiti remover and this cleaned another masking tape area.....As this shroud had "heavier" scratches I then used 400,1000 & 1200 wet paper.....then some 3M rubbing compound and then some polishing glaze....anyway I have made the used small block one look much better, but a little hesitant to start in on the EXPENSIVE NOS Big Block 70 shroud....The rubbing compounds and polishes tend to smear and streak and its very difficult to get a NEW clean look ????? ........Thanks to all.....Chuck

[BBIGG BLOCK 396]

How did you come out on the nos shroud,did you get the sticker off.If so what did you do.

Thanks

Bobby

[CamarosRus]

The last thing that I did with the NOS 70 Camaro B.B. fan shroud was to try a product called Goo Gone...which seems to be one of those citric based products.....It didnt help with that 20-30 year old tape residue....Its like that glue residue has impregnated itself right into the surface.....Seems like only thing that might work is to start with abrasives as I outlined above......and then it wont look NOS any longer.......I wish I could find a GOOD used one to restore and not have to screw around with the NOS one.......thanks, Chuck

[BBIGG BLOCK 396]

I am like you I wouldn't want to screw it up either.From my experience grafitti removers seem to be a lot stronger than alcahol when used on plastic items and surfaces.It's like it actually melts a layer of the plastic,at least the ones I have used.I have found that denatured alcahol does not react to plastic like grafitti removers do.I know a painter that uses a rubber seal product also called oil and grease remover on plastic and metal items and it seems to work on cleaning up dried compounds after buffing a paint job.And that stuff can be hard to remove.I hope you are able to get the stuff off without any damage.I will keep asking people that I know to see if someone can come up with a solution.

Bobby

[DjD]

Did you try a few days under water? The tape material unless petrified is water soluble and the shroud really isn't. Given enough time the water should soften up the tape enough that goo-gone or the like can remove it...

[Mr70]

Try Nail Polish remover.
For somereason,it succeeds were others don't.

[Stefano]

My $00.02, how about media blasting?

[Belair62]

Chuck,if I were you I would just throw that one out and find another NOS one !!!!!

[jon rand]

I say put a big MOROSO sticker over the spot it will cover it up and look realy COOL to

[SS427]

Like Stefano, I quite routinely use media or glass and blast my shrouds. I use low pressure and start in an out of the way place until I get the pressure just right. I also use this on air conditioning dog houses with very little if any ill effect of the plastic.

I would not suggest this on a part being resold as an NOS but have no problem on a NOS piece destined for a restoration I am doing.